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Newspaper Page Textr i FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon neaai lot aiau inpune Published Daily Exceot Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Businesa Manage! ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mectford Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday On year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mom 4-25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 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 318 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1 50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medfori Official t-aper of Jackson County t United Pressl-Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU lr HMUU LATlON A r I .1 1 .... WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EOITORIAi I ASSOCIATION t7 nmnz 'Trim NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight t)' 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. 14, 1947 (Tuesday) Mrs. Dewey Vincent, route 4, box 428, Medford, selected by Medford Safety council as the Careful Driver of the Day. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The price of orlon is enough to bring tears to the eye of the purchaser, one of the Older Girls observes. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1937 (Thursday) Tax collections in Jackson county for 1936 were the highest and the percentage of delinquent taxes the lowest since 1928. Medford Crater club holds testimonial farewell dinner in honor of William S. Bolger, man ager of the J. C. Penney store. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1937 (Friday) A 15-day celebration will mark the 16th anniversary of the Golden Rule Marcantile com pany of Medford. Sheriff Ralph Jennings re turns to Medford after attend ing the annual meeting of the sheriffs association in Portland. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1917 (Sunday) Exhibitions from southern Oregon and Willamette valley counties at the poultry show will be extended because of inclem ent weather. From Local and Personal col umn: Henry Gregory of Central roint is a business visitor in Medford today. What's Your I.Q.? Ntne or ten correct Is superior; sev en or elrnt is excellent; rive r six Is good. 1. Was the first varnish ex ported from the U.S. (1836) shipped into South America, Mexico, or France? 2. Sex can be distinguished by fingerprints: true or false? 3. Did John the Baptist bap tize Saul (later Paul)? 4. Wellington is the capital of which country? 5. Name the U.S. president who was blind in one eye later in his life. 6. Does angora wool continue to grow atfer it is shorn from the rabbit? 7. Is "angora wool" made from goat, cat, or rabbit hair? 8. Is a "borzoi" a dog, fish, or a native of San Marino? 9. Does "aggravate" mean to make a bad situation worse, or to make angry? Answers: 1. South America and Mexico. 2. Fall. 3, No. 4. New Zealand. 5. Theodore Roos evelt. 6. No. 7. All three. 8. Dog. A Russian wolfhound. 9. Make a bad situation worse. Canfor Improving Following Collapse Hollywood (U.R) Comed ' ian Eddie Cantor showed marked improvement today fol lowing his collapse at the end of an hour-long television show honoring his 65th birthday. The banjo-eyed entertainer of vaudeville, movies and televis ion was reported sitting up and "feeling fine" at Cedars of Leb anon hospital where he was tak en after his collapse on the Sat urday night show. MAIL TRIBUNE Bubbles Consider, for a moment, the bubble. There are all soils of bubbles. There is the bubble in the baby's esophagus, which needs a gentle pat to be loosened and give him comfort again. There are the evanescent and colorful bubbles blown from pipes by children, and the same scooped from pre pared "goop" in recent years. There are bubbles which form foam on a glass of beer, or at the bottom of a riffle, or along the beach after a storm. And on the same beach, one can sometimes find Japanese glass bubbles, used to hold up fishing nets, which have floated across the Pacific. THERE are also, we find to our mild surprise, in dustrial bubbles. One writer goes so far as to say "the continued prosperity of the industrial era may well hang on so tenuous an object as the bubble." Why? With supplies of basic raw materials getting no larger, and with demand increasing steadily, new processes for extracting metals from low-grade ores are being developed, and many of them depend on bubbles. The scientist, A. M. Gaudin, professor of mineral engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy, put. it this way in a recent issue of the Scientific American : "It was observed about 50 years ago that when air is in jected into a vat containing a mixture of substances in the form of fine particles that some substances attach them selves to the bubbles and float to the top where they can be skimmed off as froth. Consider two small particles of different substances suspended in water. The affinity of one substance for water is so great that it is promptly wetted. The other, with a grease-like surface, resists wetting. It tends to adhere to relatively dry objects. Consequently when such a substance encounters a bubble of air, its un wetted surface becomes attached to the bubble and is dragged to the surface." THE process, known as "flotation," is now widely used in the recovery of copper from ores which may run as little as 1 per cent copper. It is ground to powder-fineness and water is added, together with tiny amounts of a chemical known as a "collector," which imparts to the copper water repellent qualit ies. The bubbles of air then lift the copper to the sur face where it is skimmed off. Flotation, Professor Gaudin says, "has become not only a major tool for satisfying industry's appetite for materials but also an unmatched arena for the study of related scientific problems." As William Shakespeare tells us: "The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, and these are of them." " E. A. Printing What you are looking ing. - - Printing is the art of reproducing the written word in quantity. And since it was invented several hun dred years ago, it has "set free the mind of man." If, before that event, thoughts, he was limited in his power of communica ting them, to word-of -mouth distribution, or through hand-written letters. Today, the words of a great man can -be read, studied, re-read and considered by millions. DRINTING, like all other developments of man, is subject to abuses. Utter tripe can be broadcast as easily as can words of wisdom. But the point, here, is that man is free to discriminate, to choose between utter tripe and wisdom. And in this lies his hope for progress. ... Not only this equally as important, printing makes readily available, and preserves permanently, ihe accumulated experience and wisdom of 6,000 years of human history. v ' - And aside from these high purposes, printing is an eminently practical art, making it possible for one to ponder the thoughts of Socrates and the irreverences of Voltaire, through books; or to find out what the city council is up to, or who had a baby, through the newspaper. A MERICA'S most famous printer was Benjamin Franklin, a man whose breadth of interest and understanding, and whose sharpness of curiosity' and analysis, have seidom been equalled. His birthday on Thursday is the reason this week has been named "Printing Week." Printing is casually, and properly, taken for granted today. But if some edict were to stop the presses, dry up the ink, and halt the flow of books, magazines, pam phlets and newspapers, civilization as it is today would vanish. E.A. Colored Bridges A proppsal has been made to paint Portland's Willamette river bridges in 'Silly? Not to anyone who has watched the Bay Bridge sweeping in silver majesty over the water, or the Golden Gate bridge looming, stark, graceful and bright fog. The girdere of the Broadway bridge in Portland used to be (maybe they still Almost anything would depressing black of the bridges. E.A. Meaday, January 14. 1357 at, at the moment, is print a exeat man had great vivid colors. been to San Francisco, and orange, through the rolling are) light green. be better than the drab, old Morrison and Steel Reshaping of British Policies Foreseen in Macmillan's Lead By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Harold Macmillan, Britain's new prime minister, is likely to take the first steps soon in a his toric reshaping of policy. There are in dications that, & when he set tles down to his job, he t means to set a new course in British foreign, commonwealth and domestic Ciianes Mciann affairs. Macmillan's succession to Sir Anthony Eden as Queen Elizabeth's first minister marked a complete change in the British situation. There was no change when Eden succeeded Sir - Winston Churchill 21 months ago. Eden had been Churchill's po litical heir for years. To a great' extent, Eden merely carried on where Churchill left off. But there has been a strong feeling in Britain and in foreign countries that a radical reassess ment of policy was necessary. War Brought New Era .This reassessment would nec essarily involve the realization that the second world war brought a new era. In this new era, the United States and Soviet Russia are the two great world powers. ' The recent British-French In vasion of the Suez Canal Zone, which resulted in Eden's down fall, showed clearly how Brit ain's position has changed. Eden was compelled to call off In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The English-speaking world is concerned chiefly today with the new British premier, Harold Macmillan who he is, what he is, what he stands for and what he is going to do. So far as Britain is concerned, he is now Mr. IT. . JUST for the heck of it, lef s take a look at the former British premier Sir Anthony Eden, who today is perhaps the loneliest man in the world. Yes terday he was one of Earth's Mr. Bigs. Today he is just a career statesman and politicians who is out of a job. ' As this is written, he is mov ing out of No. 10 Downing street in London, which is the official residence of British prime minis ters. Servants are removing his furniture and personal effects to make way for the furniture and personal effects of the- NEW prime minister. For about a week, he will re main at Chequers, which is the official country home of British premiers. That leaves the Edens with just one place to go a quaint little cottage in Wiltshire which Lady Eden bought some time back. It is too small for any entertaining and itis too far from London to commute, even if Sir Anthony had a job to commute -to. . THIS morning, he took another step to remove himself from the political scene, which has been his life so long. After 33 years in the house of commons, he resigned from parliament. Following tradition. Queen Elizabeth promptly offered him an earldom, carrying with it membership in the house of lords an honor that by long custom is bestowed upon outgo ing British prime ministers (it's called prime minister because in constitutional monarchies the premier is the king's FIRST minister). He declined the offer. PIQUE? Apparently not. In resigning as premier, he gave the state of his health as his reason. He gave the same reason for his resigna tion from the house of commons. In a letter to his constituents, he said his health was too poor to allow him to keep his parlia mentary seat. He put it in these words: "The life at parliament is a strenuous one for which I clear ly have not the present health." Let's give him credit for stick ing to his guns all the way through. IN CLOSING, one more word nn Enfflanrl. England now has gasoline ra tioning. After our whirl with It in World War 2, 1 think we must all agree that gasoline rationing is about the worst disaster mod ern.living can face. It was Eden's boner at Suez "that closed the canal and brought gasoline ra tioning to England. Yesterday, a London lady. name of Klouda, took her son and several of the neighborhood children to the circus. They went in the Klouda family car. On the way home the car ran out of gas and Mrs. Klouda was fresh out of ration tickets. Her son solved the problem. "Why not try whiskey. She did and according to her report of the affair the car drank it up thirstily and "went off down the street like a bomb." She added ruefully: "But at two pounds (S5.60) per mile, it left us with an awful financial hangover." 1 : the invasion and to get France reluctantly to agree. He not only roused the anger of President Eisenhower and Secretary, of State John Foster Dulles, but he could not win the support of Canada, to name onlytone com monwealth unit. Macmillan started to come to the forefront in the British gov ernment only after the end of World War II. Eden had been in the first rank for more than 20 years. But Macmillan has a consider able advantage over Eden. First, Eden's experience as a statesman had been confined to foreign affairs, except for a brief period in 1939 and 1940 when he served as dominions minister and war minister. Macmillan has served as min ister of housing, air minister, de fense minister, foreign minister, and'chancellor of the exchequer. Wide Experience He has thus had wide execu tive experience in domestic as well as in foreign affairs. That was one of the strengths of Win ston Churchill, who has occu U.P. Correspondents Forecast Headlines United Press correspond- ' ents around the world look ahead at ihe news that will make the headlines. State Visit Prospects are increasing that President Eisenhower may make a state visit to some for eign countries this year. There is a strong feeling in some Washington circles that he may go to India, especially, to return the recent visit of Prime Minis ter Jawaharlal Nehru. Danger Signs Word comes from Warsaw that independent Communist Pre mier Wladyslaw Gomulka is preparing for possible trouble incident to the parliamentary election next Sunday. Police forces are being strengthened and provided with special anti riot equipment. Despite Gom ulka's successful fight against Russian domination, there have been anti - Communist out breaks in several cities. West ern observers on the - spot see the election as a test for Poland's future. If it goes off peacefully, and the Communists roll up a substantial majority, all will be well. But if the vote is not con vincing, and if there are riots, Moscow- may try to upset the present relatively liberal re gime. : That would mean blood shed. Oath Don't be surprised if the White House changes its mind and decides to give the public a peek by television and photo graphs at President Eisenhow er's private oath-of-office tak ing at the White House Sunday. He must take the oath Jan. 20. But because that's Sunday, the White House decided to make Today and By Walter EDEN AND THE PARTNERSHIP As Anthony Eden goes . into retirement, he can take with him the knowledge that his friends are a multitude on both sides of the ocean. For them, the end will not wipe out what went before, those valiant years of the world war era. For them, too, the Walter Lippmann last word has not been spoken to explain the disaster at Suez, and the time has not yet come for a final judgment. His friends will wish him a good recovery and a quiet mind. It was Eden's fate to have to do what Churchill once vowed he would never do, to preside over the liquidation of the Brit ish imperial position in the Mid dle East. Had everyone concern ed been much wiser and more reasonable than he was, there might have been a happy transi tion from empire to a new order of things between East and West. It was not to be. There has not been the wisdom in the West, that is to say in London, Paris and Washington, to use what re mained of their declining power to propose a new order to replace the old. In the East there has been violence and hatred, resent ment and fanaticism, to discour age and to frustrate statesman ship. , The intervention at the Suez Canal seems to have been a last desperate gamble to recover a power and an influence that had in fact already been very nearly lost. What little of power and influence remained was wagered and was lost in the disaster. THERE is no denying the fact thA the Anglo - American partnership in world affairs has been affected. This partnership really began with Churchill .and Roosevelt in the second World I 4V.. -J pied every big important Brit ish cabinet post except that of foreign secretary. Macmillan made a name for himself as a brilliant adminis trator when he was minister of housing. When the Labor party was in office after the war, it laid out an ambitious housing program. But Macmillan, when the conservatives got back into power and he was made hous ing minister, really built houses 300,000 in one year. It is likely that Macmillan will make restoration of close re lations with the United States one of his first concerns. But he is also likely to review, and to whittle down, British commit ments all over the world. He is expected to pay a lot of attention to British economic relations with the countries of Western Europe. He is called "Europe minded." Churchill and Eden were world minded. Macmillan is to make a report to the British nation on Thurs day, in his first formal television appearance as prime minister. His speech may be sensational. the ceremony completely pri vate, and to hold a public cere mon next day. There has been much criticism of the decision. So the signals may be changed. Was He Pushed? ' The official version still is that Sir Anthony Eden resigned as prime minister because of bad health. But here's a report that is being circulated at cock tail parties in inner circles: The Marquess of Salisbury, who is becoming Britain's political king maker, visited Queen Elizabeth at Sandringham, her country es tates, last Friday. He told her that the concensus of the divid ed Conservative Party leader ship was that Eden had to go The Queen called in Eden next day and told him the bad news. Trouble Emergency legislation for Hungarian refugees, once thought certain of early passage in Congress, may be in trouble. Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.), top hand on immigration legis lation in the House, warns he won't be rushed. Says full se curity checks must be made be fore any bill is passed to give refugees permanent residence in this country. There are other signs that the tide of pro-refu gee sentiment has passed its peak. For instance: Rep. Omar Burelson (D-Tex.), says he'll in troduce a bill to send' refugees home once it is determined that the'r lives won't be in danger. Clements Look for former Sen. Earle C. Clements of Kentucky to ac cept the job of executive direc tor of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee. If he does, he'll be in line for election as possible future chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Tomorrow Lippmann War. Its essence has been con sultation and agreement of the highest levels of the two govern ments in advance of any great decision' in foreign affairs. There has always been, certainly for more than a century, the British American connection. This has meant that in case of war the interests of the two countries would cause them to be on the same side. But the partnership which Churchill and Roosevelt established is a comparatively new thing in British-American relations. This partnership has been, if not dissolved, then at the very least suspended in the Suez af fair. The American complaint is that we were not consulted be fore the British government be gan its momentous military ac tion in Egypt. The British com plaint is that since the Suez in tervention, the American govern ment has refused to consult it i about any of its big policies. j rpHE official American view ; has been that it could never , again trust Eden after his fail- . ure to consult In October. The corresponding view in England , has been that after its experience j in negotiating with him over j Suez, it could never again trust i Dulles. So Washington is re lieved that Eden has retired, and London will be relieved when Dulles retires. The old partnership in its full sense is not, however, a matter of personalities. The partnership is at bottom dependent on com mon interests and somethingjike parito of power. Thus, even dur ing the World War the Churchill Roosevelt partnership did not really control the war in "the Pacific. Since the World War, except perhaps at certain critical points in the .Korean war, there has been no partnership in East Asia. It now appears that the part nership is dissolved in the Mid dle EasfX what with the collapse of British power and the so- Matter of Fact EDEN AND DULLES Washington The resignation of Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister of Britain was a genu ine personal tragedy. It was also an abso lutely ' neces sary first step towards re pairing the shattered An glo - American partnership. A partner- Stewart aisod snip. er an, is based on mutual trust it can hardly operate successfully if one partner is. forever suspect ing the other of rifling the till behind his back. Since the Suez adventure, a relationship of mu tual trust between the Eisenhow er Administration and any Brit ish government headed by Eden could not possibly exist. It may be very wrong and very unfair. But, it is universal ly believed throughout the top level of the Administration, that the 'Eden government on Eden's orders consciously mis led the American government about British intentions, in the two weeks before Suez. This was the main reason for the show of fury and pique in the Administration immediately after the Suez invasion. It was also the main reason why Presi dent Eisenhower, despite strong hints, did not invite Eden to visit him when Eden was recup erating in Jamaica, and why he did not express the customary regret at Edens resignation. TTNDER the circumstances, the old close relationship could not ia the nature of things have been rebuilt between the Eisen hower Administration and an Eden government. But the Amer ican attitude towards the Eden government is only half the story. The other half is the Brit ish and French, attitude towards the Eisenhower administration and specifically towards Secre-1 tary of State John Foster Dulles. Again, it may be very wrong and very unfair. But it is univer sally believed throughout the top levels of both the British and French governments that Secre tary Dulles, in the weeks after the nationalization of the Suez Canal, consciously misled both governments about American in tentions. This view is unquestion ably shared by Eden's successor as Prime Minister, Harold Mac millan. The distrust of Dulles, more over, unlike the distrust of Eden in this country, is not confined only to the top government levels. It is virtually universal. However unfairly, Dulles has be come a symbol, and a scapegoat, Ike Will Present ' Budget Wednesday Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower is expected to send Congress Wednesday a record peacetime budget calling for total spending of $72 billion m the fiscal year beginning July 1. The budget, however, will be a balanced one because revenue in the new fiscal year is expect ed to exceed spending. ' Th budget will indicate a sur plus of $700 million for the cur rent year ending June 30 and of $1.7 billion for the following 12 months. called Eisenhower doctrine. IN Europe, however, there is a deep need of the partnership. And, so I venture to think, it is in . the working out of a Eu ropean policy that the partner ship, which is now suspended, will be restored. We must suppose that after the disasters abroad, Britain wiU draw closer to Western Europe. We -can be sure that there will be great peril to Europe and to the world unless Western Eu rope can come to some kind of settlement with Eastern Europe. In these great and difficult things, London and Washington cannot go their seperate ways. Copyright 1947, New York Herald Tribune Inc. 1 FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 By Stewart Alsep in Britain even more than in France. This raises the obvious ques tion, whether the old partner ship can in fact be restored as long as Dulles is Secretary of State, even after Eden's resigna tion. The partnership, it should be understood, is now in com plete dissolution, except in the most formal sense. The relation ship between this country and its British and French allies is authoritatively described in the phrase "a total suspension of communication." WO be sure, the British and and French AmhassaHnrs here see Dulles occasionally he had a brief formal talk with both immediately before the an nouncement of the "Eisenhower Doctrine." The American Am bassadors in London and Paris also maintain .formal contacts with .Dulles' opposite, numbers. But the old, easy, informal, al most, instinctive exchange of views and information has been entirely suspended. Until the old relationship is restored,' the Western Alliance will remain empty and formal. and may indeed cease to exist altogether. And if it cannot be restored while Dulles . is Secre tary of State, this raises another question when, and whether, Dulles will resign. i After Dulles' cancer operation, the word was put about that he Intended to stay on for another six months, and then leave his post. But since then, Dulles has recovered amazingly . quickly, and he has shown all his ac customed vigor. He obviously loves his job, and he may now want to stay on. But it is . at least true that President Eisen hower has considered arid, dis cussed the possibility of appoint ing a new Secretary of State. TWO names have figured in these discussions. One is that of able Under-Secretary-desig- nate Christian A. Herter. The other is that of the President's old friend. Gen. Alfred Gruen ther (who has also been consid ered to succeed Charles Wil son as Secretary of Def ense)..The obvious objection to Gruenther is the fact that his appointment would put a General in both the White House and the State De partment. But Gruenther also has an intimate personal rela tionship with the President, a very real asset which Herter lacks. At any rate, both men are well qualified. Both men are also trusted and respected' by our allies, which unfair though "if may be Dulles' unquestion ably Is not'. And if it Is true that the old partnership ' cannot be restored while Dulles remains In his post, then Dulles, like other Secretaries of State before him, must be regarded as expendable. Copyright 19S7 New York -Herald Tribune Inc. If You Need Money For. Any Purpose , Borrow The American Way Loans on auto FURNITURE SALARY S25 to S1,500 PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET! , Call or Write . . ' ' American Finance Corp. Phone 2-8886 12S W. Main Medford 4t PERL'S every fomjly "'. may m a k e funergl ar - rongements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of .services In every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to .'meet all financial circumstances. 'Convenient Terms? Certainly! .