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History from the files of The
Mail Tribuns 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 9. 1947 (Thursday)
Dr. E. T. Hubbard,' Portland
postmaster and state chairman
for the infantile Paralysis March
of Dimes campaign, is in Jack
son county this week.
From Arthur . Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A num
ber of valley natives have de
layed trips to the Southland,
upon recipt of word, they can get
as cold at home.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 9. 1937 (Saturday)
Airplanes using the Medford
airport in 1936 totaled 867 in
addition to the United airliners
maintaining six schedules daily.
Work on Bear creek parkway
started last week, according to
Fred Scheffel, city superintend
ent.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 9. 1927 (Sunday)
John Carkin, former Medford
city attorney, will be speaker
of the house m the Oregon
legislature.
Rogue river was higher in
water flow this winter than in
normal seasons, according to
W. R. Coleman, state superin
tendent of fish hatcheries.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 9. 1917 (Tuesday)
Oregon State Poultry associa
tion's annual show opens in Med
ford today.
County court appoints George
Stacv of Beagle, road supervisor
of district 12 to replace Lee
Vincent.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior: seT
n or elsht Is excellent; five or
tlx Is rood.
1. was New York's East River
Bridge opened for travel before
or after 1880?
2. Did Swift, Pope, or Ma
cauley introduce the name "Ya
hoo '?
3. What medicinal product is
obtained from the bark of the
chinchona tree?
4. Babylonia: Was king Jehoia-
chin ever released from prison
by Evilmerodach?
5. Is it permissible to award
the Purnle Heart medal for
frostbite?
6. Name the five senses.
7. What is the name for a
pencil in which graphite is used
for the writing material.'
8. Is Zaragoza in either Por
tugal or Italy?
9. "If you knew John" is a
converse statement of what?
10. Name the book in which
Cervantes wrote "The proof of
the pudding is in the eating.
Answers: 1. After. (1883). 2.
Swift, (in "Gulliver's Travels".
3. Quinine. 4. Yes. 5. Yes. 6.
Sight, hearing, smell, taste,
touch. 7. Lead pencil. 8. No,
Spain. 9. "If John knew you,
10. "Don Quixote."
RUSSIAN LUXURIES
London (U.R) Radio Mos
cow said today that television
sets are a luxury in Russia be
cause "there are not enough TV
stations in the country." Other
luxuries listed included automo
biles, fine chinaware, works of
art and Bokhara rugs. But radios.
phonographs, cameras, sports
goods, musical instruments and
books "have become necessities,
it said.
No Panacea
Following a series of brutal incidents involving
teenage delinquents, largely in Portland but not
limited to that city, pressure is building up for. an
amendment to Oregon's compulsory school attend
ance law. The thinking goes this way :
The law was amended a few years ago raising
from 16 to 18 the age until which students must at
tend school, with few exceptions. This requires
youngsters who are not interested in or not fitted for
the higher levels of secondary education, to attend
school against their wili. This group, a small minority,
is bored, resentful, antagonistic and troublesome.
They detract from orderly schooling for the major
ity, and take out their resentments by acts of de
linquency and trouble-making. If they were permitted
to leave school at an earlier age, the schools would
have one less problem, and the youngsters could get
jobs and stay out of trouble.
yHIS is all right as far as it goes.
There is no question that there is a small group
of students who cannot, or will not, benefit from
schooling beyond a certain level, and keeping them
in school does detract from the rights of others.
But the casual assumption that they "could get
jobs and stay out of trouble" is too casual, too .easy,
and not necessarily correct.
The numbei of jobs which unschoolable young
sters can obtain and hold is strictly limited. This is
partly because they lack the training and experience-
and perhaps the stability to be desirable employees.
It is also because of the barriers placed in their
way by well-intentioned laws limiting "child labor"
which in this type of situation have an adverse effect
on society, rather than a healthy one as was intended.
FOR these reasons, dropping these problem kids
from school is an easy "solution" which really
solves nothing. The kids are still at loose ends, re
sentful, bored and usually idle,.. which is a danger
ous condition for undisciplined youngsters who have
no basic respect for others
It might be a step m the right direction.
But we can't avoid "the feeling that anything
which tends to give young people even recalcitrant
ones a better grounding in the skills of society
should be continued as long
The world needs literate,
not achieve this by forcing young people to attend
school for "an added two year's. But it's a cinch we
won't achieve it by tossing-these same young people
out into the "cold, cruel world," either, particularly
if they cannot find jobs.
NO, THE solution to juvenile hooliganism and
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in any easy panacea, in any snap of the fingers by
the legislature, in any trick plan.
It lies only in the slow,
ward a society where individuals recognize and ac
cept their responsibilities to that society.
This sounds like an impossible idea.
And yet if each generation is only a little more
aware of its role than the
a child is bom its parents are a little more aware of
their responsibility in raising that child with a decent
respect for the rights of others; if each time a new
class begins the teacher is
need to inspire m his charges the ideals ct citizen
ship, of responsibility; of the enduring values that
make life good if these things happen, we can hope
for gradual progress. But, humans being what they
are, it will, we fear, be painfully slow. b.A.
Who's "Elderly"?
When one is 10 years
achieved 20 summers appears to be an adult, a
"grown-up, presumably
At the age of 20, of
changed, and one then
prime, and anyone of 30
agred a view no longer
And so it goes. One's estimate of when the prime
of life is reached changes with age. "Life begins at
40" is a consoling thought to those near that mile
stone; at 50 one has barely reached full maturity,
those who are there believe. Sixty is the beginning of
the mellow middle years to
A GE is a relative thing as a youthful reporter on
a Salem newspaper found out when he referred
in print to a woman of 51 as "elderly." She called
his editor and with vigor
That word is another
which come too easily to
but which are only relatively correct at best, and
downright insulting at worst. ,
Others of the genre which have always appalled
us are senior citizen,
which are nothing more
synonyms for "elderly" or
to be opprobrious.
We were glad to find our opinion substantiated
by a group of men and women in the over-60 age
bracket, one of whom asked "Can you imagine call
ing Winston Churchill or Herbert Hoover a 'senior
citizen'?"
TPHE point, as we see it, is that, to paraphrase the
saying about beauty, "age is as age feels." We
know some people who are old in their 30s, and
others who are sprightly in outlook, vigorous in mind
and youthful in appearance in their 70s and 80s, and
woe betide him who permits chronological age to
obscure the facts of resiliency and spontaneity.
If a man admits to being "elderly," that's his
own affair. But let us not assault the dignity of ma
ture years with silly euphemisms. E.A.
Wednesday, January 9, 1937
and for society.
as is humanly possible.
intelligent people. We may
oh-so-slow,, progress to
one before it; if each time
a little more aware of the
of age, a person who has
on the verge of senility.
course, that viewpoint has
regards himself as in the
or more years as middle
held at dO.
those in the 60s.
denied it.
one of those invidious labels
the tongue and typewriter,
golden ager and oldster
than sloppily-sentimental
"old", and we deem them
King Sand's
Arab Acceptance of 'Doctrine'
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The visit of King Saud of Sau
di Arabia to the United States
is likely to give the new Eisen
FTi bower Doc-
trine-a big
boost.
Saud, about
ft maining abso
lute monarch
in the -world,
is a member
"of "the Arab
League, o f-
Chnei ic ann which .Presi
dent Nasser of IJgypt -regards
himself as the leader. He also
has entered into a military alli
ance with Egypt.
But Saud has kept himself
somewhat aloof from the adven
tures of Nasser and he is firmly
anti-Communist. . '
Saud also enjoys an income of
about S200 million a year in
royalties from the Arabian
American Oil Co., which ex
ploits the vast Saudi Arabian oil
reserves. He lets the United
States maintain, at Dhahran, one
of the most important air bases
in the Middle East. --"
The first Arabian reaction to
the Eisenhower Doctrine, under
which the President proposes
that the United States shall com
bat any armed Communist ag
gression in the Middle East,
Quotes From the News
By UNITED
Memphis, Tenn. Capt. Elwyn
1A draft classification:
"Physically Presley is an
can go. v ,; -.-
Cambridge, Mass. Hugh Gaiiskell, British' Labor party leader,
believing Red China should be
Security Council:
"I believe the Chinese Communist government should be al
lowed to lake its place because it
there is more chance of the U.N.
does.
Hollywood Jerry Giseler,
cizing police for trying to prove
It is about time the police were proceeding with the mvestiga-
tion of the kidnaping instead of
Honolulu Plane Commander
Calif., sending a frantic radio message that the stork was about to
visit his airliner:
"We're having a baby get a
London Yemenite spokesmen predicting the Arab world
would spring to their country's
hostilities with Britain:
"Yemen can make or break Western plans in Arabia."
Alexandria, Va. Judge James N. Colasanio refusing to sup
press a conviction of a Negro janitor accused of molesting two new
ly arrived Hungarian refugee women:
"The reason we have freedom
In the Day's News
By FRANK
State Secretary Dulles goes
before the house of representa
tives foreign affairs committee
to fill in details of President
Eisenhower's new Middle East
policy.
Congressional Democrats and
some Republicans have indicat
ed they will have plenty of
questions for him. GOP Congress
man James Fulton of Pennsyl
vania, for example, says he wants
to know exactly how long the
proposed stand-by authority will
last and precisely where it will
apply.
VITITH no desire to be frivolous,
" one might suggest that Con
gressman Fulton might like to
know PRECISELY what the
weather will be at 8 p.m. next
Christmas Eve and EXACTLY
how many votes he will get the
next time he runs for office.
The point is that in situations
as confused and "iffy" as the
present struggle between com
munism and the free world it
isn't given to human beings to
be able to look that far forward
into the future with precision
and exactness.
About the best we can do is
to guess as accurately as is
humanly possible how Russia
proposes to achieve her objective
of destroying us and thus ex
tending communism over the
world. Our next step after that
must be to figure out how "we
will STOP her.
That, it must be assumed, is
what we are undertaking to do
QECRETARY Dulles, explain-
ing the new policy to the
house foreign affairs committee,
says it would be a disaster to
the West to let' the "Middle East
with its strategic location and
its immense supplies of oil
fall under Soviet domination.
But. more than that, he adds,
it would encourage the Kremlin
to resort to force everywhere
in the world. -
That seems a reasonable state
ment.
TE MUST not, of course, go
" all out for the Ike plan
just because it's Ike's plan. That
would be carrying partisanship
MUCH too far.
What the new plan amounts
to is a new foreign policy for
the United States. The purpose
Visit May
ranged from caution to open
hostility. 1 J
Imperialism Chief Fear
The chief Arab fear -is that
United States "imperialism"
may move into the Middle East
to take the place of the Britsh
French "imperialism" which is
being thrown off.
Except in the case of Egypt,
Arab comment on the Eisenhow
er doctrine is now softening
somewhat.
King Saud has not committed
himself to it. But his state visit
to Washington on Jan. 30 cer
tainly will give Eisenhower and
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles the best possible oppor
tunity of convincing him that
there are no traps in their plan
to make it harder for Russia to
penetrate the Middle East.
If Saud is sold on the plan, he
will be able to exert a. great
deal of influence in its favor
among the leaders of other Arab
countries.
Saud actually is a much stron
ger figure than Nasser. Nasser
is noisy and spectacular, and has
managed to make himself a nuis
ance and a danger to peace. But
he is bankrupting his country,
already impoverished, in pursuit
of his ambitions.
Many Countries Hostile
He ha earned himself the hos
tility of many countries, and he
has failed so far in his ambition
PRESS
Rowan on singer Elvis Presley's
A-profile, and that's as high as you
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admitted io the United Nations
is the government of China and
functioning effectively when it
Marie McDonald's attorney, criti
the actress' kidnap story a hoax:
investigating Miss McDonald."
Walker J. Lawion of Alamo,
doctor quick."
defense in the event of large-scale
here is because we do not con-
JENKINS
of a foreign policy is to PRO
TECT THE INTERESTS of the
nation laying down the policy
If it is to be adopted and backed
up with all the resources we
possess, including our lives and
our property, it must be sound
and wise.
If it is to be SUCCESSFUL, it
must be thoroughly understood
by the people, whose lives and
property are at stake. That can
come about only through full
and unhmted discussion.
In this NECESSARY discus
sion no punches should be pull
ed and no politics should be
played.
MOVING over from the grave
Ioes of human nature, I suppose
you are aware of the hullabaloo
over Princess Grace's and Prince
Rainier's impending, baby.
Reporters and camermen arid
commentators are ganging up
around the toy palace in the
toy principality of Monaco.
Presently, they are seeking gos
sip. The big prize, when the
baby arrives, will be the FIRST
PICTURE. That will be a scoop
of the first magnitude, and it
is reported that sizeable bribes
are being offered to palace re
tainers all the way up from
scullery maids to the first lord
of the royal bedroom.
Anyone who can hide a
camera and sneak a shot of
the infant seems to be eligible
for backsheesh.
gNOOPING?
Inexcusable invasion of priv
acy? Sure! But I'll risk a bet. I'll
wager you're reading the stories,
instead of skipping 'em. .That's
why the reporter and the cam
eraman and the gossip writers
are converging on Monaco.
D
ISGUSTING?
Let's not go that far. It's
just ol" human nature. We hu
man beings are built that way.
Before losing faith in human
nature, it's well to remember
the ancient jingle:
"There's so much good in the
worst of us
"And so much bad in the best
of us
"That it ill behooves any of us
"To speak evil of the rest of us."
Assist
to make himself the leader of
the Arab world. He may easily
outsmart himself and be ousted
by his present followers. . '
Saudj impressive 6 foot 6,
hawk-nosed, fearless, sits secure
ly on his throne as ruler of about
7 million Saudi Arabians and
more than 900,000 square miles
of territory. His oil revenues en
able him to maintain a fabulous
court.
It ought not to be too hard for
Eisenhower and Dulles to con
vince King Saud that the United
States aims solely at opposing
aggressive Communism in the
Middle East. There are indica
tions that Saud does not approve
the way in which Nasser is
mortgaging his country to Rus
sia. It is likely also that Saudis
visit will result in a new agree
ment covering the Dhahran air
base.
New Anti-Filibuster
Affempt To Begin;
Defeat Predicted
By HERBERT FOSTER '
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) A group
of Northern senators seized on
part of an advisory opinion by
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on today for a new and probably
doomed attempt to curb filibust
ers.
At the same time the group
proposed a dozen civil rights
bills many past victims of
filibusters or threats by South
ern senators.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey CD-
Minn.), said he would introduce
a resolution this afternoon de
claring that.Section 3 of Senate
Rule 22 in unconstitutional. He
said he would ask for an immed
iate vote.
Section 3 allows unlimited de
bate on a motion for the Senate
to consider any bill. Southern
ers can use this device to talk
civil rights measures to death
before the bills are even formal
ly before the Senate for a vote.
Southerners Ready
Southern Senators huddled
Tuesday and were ready for the
move. Under Senate rules, Hum
phrey's call for an immediate
vote could be countered by de
bating it.v.ntil 11 a.m. (PST)
when - his motion would auto
matically "go to the Rules com
mittee. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D
Ga.), said, "I think we are ready
for any contingency." -
Humphrey said his resolution
co-sponsored by Sens. Joseph
S. Clark (D-Pa.), Paul H. Doug
las (D-Ill.), and Wayne Morse
(D-Ore.) would "focus atten
tion on the unconstitutional as
pects of Rule 22" in light of
Nixon's advisory opinion last
Friday that Section 3 is uncon
stitutional. Nixon said the sec
tion denied the majority of the
Senate in a new Congress the
right to adopt Senate rules.
Elvis Presley Gets
1A Draft Listing
Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) A pre
induction physical report which
will make singer Elvis Presley's
draft classification 1A was
mailed to his draft board today.
Capt. Elwyn Rowan said the
singer passed his pre-induction
physical with ease and "quali
fied for 1A."
However, Rowan said it would
probably be six months or more
before Presley is called in serv
ice, despite the top draft-eligible
classification.
Have You
CLEARANCE
DYKE'S
Kefauver Again Loses
Bid for Foreign Post
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) For the
fourth time, Sen. Estes Kefau
ver (D-Tenn.) has lost out to a
senator with Jess seniority in
his bid for a coveted seat on the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee. Kefauver was passed up Tues
day in favor of Sen. John F.
Kennedy (D-Mass.) to fill the
only current vacancy on the
committee.
Kennedy, Kefauver's unsuc
cessful rival for the Democratic
vice presidential nomination last
year, has been in the Senate
for four years, Kefauver for
eight.
Rule Cracking Up
The time-honored seniority
role for doling out committee
assignments is cracking up
among Senate Democrats. Thus,
the Senate Democratic Steering
committee voted 14-0 to give
the foreign relations seat to
Kennedy, despite Kefauver's
senior claim, in making a new
set of committee assignments.
Republican senators, who en
force the seniority rule much
more strictly, expected to com
plete their committee assign
ments today.
During the four years that
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas has been Democratic floor
leader, the party leadership has
been bending the seniority rule.
Johnson has fought for a policy
that every Democratic senator,
even a freshman, should, have
at least one "good" committee.
Disappointed
Kefauver, who had not waived
his seniority, said he was dis
appointed. "Of course, I do not blame
Sen. Kennedy for trying to bet
Nixon Observes
44fh Birth Date
Washington - (U.R) Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
celebrated his 44th birthday to
day with a heavy day of work
and his wife away from home.
The family's traditional, but
simple, home celebration won't
be held until Thursday because
Nixon's wife, Pat, was out of
town for the day on a personal
trip. But they will gather quiet
ly then with their two daugh
ters, Patricia, 10, and Julie, 8
for a, little get together at home,
Nixon was born Jan. 9, 1913
at Yerba Linda, Calif. When he
first was nominated, for vice-
president in 1952, he was only
39 the youngest man ever put
up by the GOP for the post.
However, he is not the young
est vice president in history
That honor belongs to Democrat
James C. Breckenridge, who
served with President James
Buchanan.
Eight Hungarian
Refugees Sent Back
Washington (U.R) Th
United States has sent eight
Hungarian refugees back to
Austria for giving false infor
mation to immigration officials.
The justice Department an
nounced the action late Tuesday
as Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-
Pa.) charged that many Hun-
gar, an refugees admitted to the
United States did not receive the
thorough screening which the
law he helped write requires
The refugees were the first to
be returned to Austria since
thousands began arriving by
plane during the Christmas sea
son.
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ter this position," he said, "but I
am interested to learn that sen.
iority is a rule that may or may
not be applied by the Senate
leadership in deciding the rights
of senators."
Kennedy would succeed form
er Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.)
on the foreign relations group.
The steering committee named
89 -year -old Sen. Theodore
Francis Green (D-RI) to succeed
George as chairman of the com
mittee.
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The "Giving" Problem
To the Editor: Sure is hard to
know just what to do in these
drives for money to help out
in obviously worthy causes. We
try to contrioute to every one.
even though it's sometimes little
more than the widow s mite. So,
when one drive is ended and
here is another with its plea for
help, being a part of the com
munity we feel that giving is an
almost must, for such is our way
of life, to help one another.
But there is that "inner self,"
warning to be careful, that feel
ing sorry for others is quite ail
right but it's also important to
think of one's self, that an ac
cident around home or out on
the now lethal highway with a
doctor and hospital bill will
make the little bank balance dis
appear like the snow-flake in
the dark river.
So, we get aU mixed up when
it became known that some of
our contributions to "TB" were
used in a controversial health
issue that health authorities felt
was all right but the majority
of voters thought otherwise.
Now, we're all mixed up
again with information mat
former Allied commander in
Europe, Gen. Alfred M. Gruenth
er, retired, has been found per
manently '40 per cent' physically
unfit, and so 40 per cent of his
retirement pay of $11,487 per
year goes tree of income tax.
But, the Red Cross evidently
considers him worthy of the
$30,000 a year salary that goes
with that high office.
Maybe my thinking is all
twisted up but it does seem that
a man 40 per cent physically
disabled could retire comfortable
on $11,487. If he is unfit for
army duty, how can he be con
sidered fit for the involved duty
of Red Cross work, that demands
so much or does it?
F. J. Clifford
1211 West Main st.
Medford, Ore.
Eternal Reward
GEO. N. TAYLOR
"No man can come to Me ex
cept God who sent Me draw him
and I will raise him up the last
d a y." Christ's
word John
6:44. You pray
for them and
God draws
them to Christ.
There they see
Him in death
for their sins.
Yes, pray God
to draw your
lost to Christ
who died for their sins. Slip out
in the evening and pray as you
walk. Pray under your breath,
if need be. But pray God to bring
your lost to see Christ in death
for their sins. Pray for the lost.
So you earn eternal reward.
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