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FOtJH MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDjTRIBUire "Iven oni In SoutHern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Exceot Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 NortftFir Sr Phone 2-I41 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB CRY Advertising Manager CERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ER ICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act o March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 91500 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4-25 Sundav Only One vear S4-20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rorue River Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year SI 8 00 Daily and Sunday One month 10 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Offlrtai paper of tbe City or Medford Official fraper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPAPfY INC Offices in New York Chicago de troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C N A T I 0 N A 1 EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION NEWS PA PER V PUBLISHERS J 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. 17, 1947 (Friday) Talent Grange sponsors March of Dimes dance at the Grange hall.- From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The new football coach at Old Oregon has started in on his martyrdom but has not yet been the target of a noon luncheon. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 17, 1937 (Sunday) Chains and caution are urged by state police for motorists traveling any distance from Medford. Use of national reemployment service by employers in Jack son county suggested by Olen Arnspiger, president of Jackson Countv Chamber of Commerce. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 17, 1927 (Monday) Post office shows increase in receipts of $8,000 for 1926 over the previous year, according to Postmaster William J. Warner. Kiwanis club votes to furnish a radio set at the county farm. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 17, 1917 (Wednesday) Mayor C. E. Gates appoints Fred W. Mears city attorney and J. F. Hittson chief of police at first council meeting of new administration. S. S. Bullis reelected presi dent of stockholders of Apple gate Lumber company. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en or eight Is exceUent; tive or six Is good 1. In 1621, 55,000 lbs. of to bacco was exported from Vir ginia; true or false? 2. Is Death Valley in Arizona? Utah? 3. Is the earliest mention of David as King of Judah in the First Book of the Kings? 4. Does the U.S. Post Office Department print any postage stamps? 5. Was Carlos Romulo ever Resident Commissioner of the Philippine Islands to the U. S.? 6. The application of heat to destroy bacteria in milk is termed what? 7. Was Mithras a Persian king? General? 8. In the song: "Some say the world is made for fun and frol ic,and so" does who? 9. Combat is a noun; is it also a verb? 10. "How poor are they that have no patience! Is this from Shakespeare's "Othello" or "Hamlet?" Answers: 1. True. 2. No. Cal ifornia. 3. No. 4. No. 5. Yes. 6. Pasteurization. 7. No. God: per tonification of the tun. 8. I. 9. Yes. 10. Othello. UNEXPECTED RELIEF Jackson, Mich. lU.R) Two "Indian medicine men" relieved more than William A. Williams' arthritis Wednesday. Williams told police a man and a woman drove up to his home and offered to ease the pain of his arthri tis with a liquid cure. Later, he discovered they had relieved him of his wallet while rubbing his legs. NOSE GONE Malaga, Spain (U.R) Twenty-two-year-old Remendios D i e z Ruiz was in serious condition in a local clinic today. Manuel Orozoco bit off her nose after a lover's quarrel. MAIL TRIBUNE An Excellent Start Governor Holmes has certainly made an excellent start. His inaugural address was a refreshing change from the routine and stereotyped declamations of recent years. It was brief, eloquent and to the point. If there were any glittering generalities we failed to note them. ' IN EACH and every case our new Governor was A clear-cut, incisive and explicit. On many cf his proposals of course, there will not be universal agreement. There never is when a chief-executive of the state really has something to say and SAYS it, But on a vast majority of them we believe there will be general public approval, and in the opinion of the Mail Tiibune, with only one or two exceptions the welfare and betterment of Oregon calls for such a program of action as Governor Holmes has out lined. TT REMAINS to be seen, of course, how responsive the Legislature as this is written the Senate is still deadlocked over organization will be to the progressive and enlightened challenge the state's new chief-executive has handed down. But with a comfortable Democratic majority in the House, and at least an even break in the Senate, the chances of constructive and beneficial progress would seem to be good. GOVERNOR HOLMES' first appointment, that of Howard Morgan, as the new state public utility commissioner, is in perfect harmony with the spirit of his inaugural. As the Governor' pointed out, he felt that too many of the "state's boards and commissions have come to a position of representing the people they are SUPPOSED to REGULATE, more than they repre sent the PUBLIC." That is a deplorable tendency, that has often been stressed in this department, and for years has cried out for drastic correction. Governor Holmes, however, was careful to point out that this comment was not to be taken as any reflection on former utility commissioner Heltzel, and he might have added, that the laws regarding the powers of this position must be changed before the welfare and profits of the private utilities, can be subordinated, as they should be, to the welfare of the people and the state. CTATJE SENATOR LOWRY.of Jackson County has prepared legislation to bring this about and it is indeed reassuring and encouraging to know that a man in sympathy with such action is, at long last, occupying the state-house. Moreover, from all we can learn. Howard Morgan will be no "easy mark" when it comes to the "butter-ing-up" and cajoling treatment that the "Friendly Southern Pacific" has through recent years, brought to such a hign degree of perfection. Morgan is a veteran of student of transportation on both sea and land, and served a term in the state Legislature, so he promises to be a pretty tough "cookie" when it comes to falling for either the flattering S.P. or the "Business is Busi ness" Arlington club approach. He is wise to both. And one might add it and a radical change in Oregon laws so they are more m accord wun similar laws in California instead of being as they are, largely self-defeating, before any real progress can be made. 1I7E BELIEVE public sentiment all the way from Eugene to the California line, is united and up-in-arms against the Friendly Southern Pacific's revival of the policy of the "public be damned" and utterly ignoring its responsibilities in the area of public-service. We trust the people will not rest on their oars and leave it up to State Senator Lowiy to cany on this fight single-handed, and alone. He happens to be a Republican, but that has noth ing to do with this issue. He is RIGHT, he is courage ous, and he deserves the vigorous support of the people of Southern Oregon, in his effort to imple ment a policy that will give them a square deal in the important realm of rail transportation. Letters to him and to Governor Holmes along this line would be great help. We hope the mail-trucks and the mail-planes no mail-by-rail these sad days will be loaded with them. And may they aid in giving southern Oregon the type of transportation that its growth and prosperity deserve. R.W.R. The Sales Tax Again According to press dispatches from Salem the only certain thing about this legislative session is not what WILL happen, but what WON'T. The "won't" refers to a state sales tax. That it seems is not to be. Well, in view of the defeat of the effort to sanc tion the emergency clause to tax bills, and the four or five defeats of the sales tax by vote' of the people, that appears to be a fairly safe prediction. As the Mail Tribune has opposed such a tax for many years and agrees with Governor Holmes in theory that it is an unfair tax in that it imposes a burden upon those least able to pay, we have no heart burnings over such a situation. DUT we can't subscribe to the "defeatist" attitude that seems, to generate it. Because any legislation has been defeated in the past is no justification for those who believe it right, to giverfup fighting for it Thursday, January 17. 1957 World War II, has been, a will take a tough cookie West Germany's Importance in European Politics Said Rising By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent West Germany's importance in the European political set-up is growing rapidly. It is being suggested that West Germany will be regarded be fore long as the strongest power on the Western Eu ropean conti nent. The latest evidence of rrirtii ito-i fr-(-'i tnis increased Charles McCann importance IS the report that a German, Lt. Gen. Hans Speidel, is . to be named commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization ground forces in the Central European Zone. In that capacity, Speidel would command American, Brit ish and French, as well as Ger man troops in that part of West ern Europe which would be the first line in event of a war with Soviet Russia. It is reported also that both President Theodor Heuss and Chancellor K 0 n r a d Adenauer will make state visits to Wash ington this spring. The prestige of West Germany has been growing steadily for a long time. Under Adenauer, the country has- risen from utter prostration after the destruction of World War II to solid prosperity. Its 50 million people enjoy full em ployment. It is forming an army, navy and air force which will add between 300.000 and 500, 000 men to the NATO defense alliance. , But West Germany's position In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In his inaugural address at Salem, Oregon's newly elected Governor Holmes says: "I see the opportunity for a bold, imaginative, vigorous course, with unlimited vistas of growth and progress. "That is the direction I pro pose to take. I propose to take it because I think the people of Oregon voted for such a change of course. I think they expect me as the chief executive, and you as the legislators, to take a fresh, new forward lookat our state government. "The people want daring, not dullness; faith, not fear. We must fly, not flounder. There can be no turning back." WITH that stirring, inspiration al appeal to bring the state of Oregon into the forefront of progress, I think all Oregonians are in complete agreement. There has been a feeling for some time that in terms of ma terial progress Oregon has been falling somewhat behind its neighboring states of California and Washington; A feeling of that sort doesn't leave the peo ple of Oregon completely happy. They want to be going places just as rapidly as their neigh bors. So I'm sure they are ready to join with their new governor in a bold, imaginative, vigorous course designed to bring new op portunities and new ACHIEVE MENTS to the s'tate of Oregon. BUT We can't do everything at once. If we take off vigorously in all directions we will scatter our efforts and get nowhere. First things must come first. That raises a question: What, in Governor Holmes' mind, is the thing we need to do FIRST? ONLY Governor Holmes, of course, can answer that ques tion, and in his address to the legislature he didn't answer it specifically for which he is not to be blamed, for inaugural ad dresses are not designed to pro vide complete answers to all questions. Their purpose is to set the tone for what is to follow. More specific recommendations will come later. But one can't help concluding that if the objectives he has out lined in his inaugural message are to be reached the first thing that must be done is to find more money. That is definitely sug gested in his address. Where is it to come from? That, I'd say, will be the BIG problem of the 1957 session of the Oregon legislature. If'7 It is really a question for tax EXPERTS we don't mean political experts to decide. If after careful study a majority of them should decree that in view of the all-around tax situation, a sales tax properly qualified, would get the best results from, the standpoint of continued prosperity and growth of the state of Oregon then as far as this paper is concerned we would yield to "expert" opinion and on such a basis, support it. ! We certainly would not on the basis of f ailure in the past, give up fighting for it. If that sort of doctrine had prevailed in the past women would have no right to vote today and there would be no federal or state income tax. As has often been remarked, nothing is really settled until it is from the standpoint of the public welfare, settled RIGHT. R.W.R. . was strengthened especially, as regards prestige, as the result of the British-French invasion of the Suez Canal Zone. That operation, which hurt Britain and France, and resulted in a breach with the United States that has not yet been en tirely overcome, made West Ger many look better by contrast. It seemed a matter of some significance that Prime Minister Jawarharlal Nehru of India made it a point to stop off at the Duesseldorf Airport on his way home from Washington last month to confer with Adenauer. No country realizes more than does Russia the strength and im portance of West Germany. East Germany, which Russia controls, is a splinter country with a contemptible puppet gov Matter of Fact by J0sePh msop COSINESS AT THE KREMLIN Moscow For the inexperi enced traveler, the Kremlin is the first great surprise of Mos- cow. The grim, ! grey fortress one had ex pected to find turns out in stead to be un- m a g i n a bly pretty. The rather low, ornately crenelated Joseph aisod wans are noi grey but a. rich, dark straw berry red. The high, decorated guard towers are pure objects of medieval fantasy. The ancient churches rise to happy riots of colored and gilded domes. The palaces are painted a bright but ter yellow picked out with white. In fact, the Kremlin really looks like a particularly gay decoration by Bakst for one of Diaghilev's earlier ballets, rath er than the dark citadel of the world's imagination. Inside the Kremlin, too, one is due for some brisk surprises. Or so I found the other day, when I at tended the vast Kremlin party in honor of East German Pre mier Grotewohl and his col leagues. TT must, on the whole, have A been a hard day for the Krem lin's masters. In early afternoon, in leaden, icy weather, they had welcomed China's Premier Chou En Lai at Vnukovo Airport with ostentatious ceremonies, includ ing interminable speeches and the long evolutions of a brilliant ly uniformed, wonderfully smart. menacingly goose-stepping guard of honor of young Russian giants. Almost immediately after that, came the formal signing of the new Soviet-East German accord. And almost immediately after that, the tall, gilded doors of St. George's Hall in the Kremlin Grand Palace were flung open with a fanfare; and the members of the Soviet Presidium led their foreign guests to the sup per tables between long, close packed lines of their applauding subjects. - . ST. GEORGE'S Hall, a Czarist leeacv. must be one of the biggest rooms in the world, end its white plaster decorations are so elaborate that it gives you the feeling of being inside a gigantic wedding cake. Around the walls, long lines of tables offered supper to the company of 1500 or more persons present. There was caviar and every sort of cold dish and sweet Russian wine and brandy and vodka and the admirable Russian ice cream and champagne as well. But despite the amplitude of the supper, the immensity of the party and the grandeur of the hall, the occasion somehow lack ed pomp. Partly this was because the Soviet upper crust and their wives are mostly large, a solid people, darkly and respectably clad, with the look of being solid citizens with no nonsense about them. Partly it was be cause there are daily children's parties in the Kremlin at this season, and this fantastic room had been decorated for the chil dren in the manner of a parish hall at Christmas, with a splen did 50-foot Christmas tree and an enormous but very parish hall-ish show scene above the stage at the further end. But chiefly this feast for 1500 people produced its curiously cosy effect because the crowd tucked in the eatables and drink ables with such cheerfully visi- A g r -w f f i ernment. Of the 18 million peo ple in East Germany, 1,723,000 h.-.ve sought refuge in West Ger many since 1949. Because Russia sees the im portance of the West German re public, it is determined not to permit the unification of the country. If the anti-Communist surge of revolt in the satellite - countries spreads to East Germany, it will bring about a crisis. Both the Soviet and the West German governments fear that in the event of a revolt West Germans would flock across the border to support it. What Rus sia might do can not be fore seen. But the United States and other NATO countries are pledged to defend West Ger many. ble enthusiasm, and the Krem lin's masters, who were no less enthusiastic about eating and drinking, also exuded so much hospitable geniality. With their foreign guests and the diplo mats, the members of the Pre sidium occupied a sort of semi- enclosure of their own beneath the snow scene, where they play ed host as though on a stage. OULGANIN, Khrushchev, Mol - otov and the other senior rulers of the Soviet Union are all markedly short men Stalin would have no tall fellows about him. And these short, smiling men, working hard to make the party "go", hardly looked like the stern masters of the greatest empire in history. Nourishment and . pleasure, were by no means the only busi ness oi the evening. Premier Bui- ganin, the very image of goateed benevolence, opened the formal proceedings with the first speech and the first toast which the band greeted with another fan fare for Kremlin toasts are celebrated almost in the Danish manner that Hamlet complained about. Thereafter, with only occasion al pauses, the speaking and toasting continued for almost three hours. The difficulty was that at least one representative of each of the "parties" that form the East German "coalition" had to be heard from. As German lead er succeeded German leader, ex hausting relays of interpreters, one began to understand at least one of the Kremlin's objections to multi-party government the more so because the bearded, be-ringed, flowingly robed Met ropolitan of Moscow, who must be a sharp man,,was almost the only person in the huge room who managed to find a place to sit down. . VET the seemingly unending oratory prevented no one from chatting and drinking. Even Chou En Lai, after listen ing to the speakers with formal politeness for more than an hour, broke down to the extent of hold ing his own private reception of Asian . diplomats. Then the oratory really did end after all. The famous ballerina, Pliset skaya, briefly but exquisitely ap peared. There was singing. There was music. There was a young man from the Bolshoi Theater Troupe who danced the famous Gopak in a way that would have been hard to imitate, even at a dictator's behest. At length, the massive golden chandeliers were darkened. Con cealed light astonishingly trans formed the painted show scene into a red and green and pink and blue and silver aurora bore- alis. And so, with a round of applause for the aurora and onj final toast, the party came to a happy end. By then, one had almost forgotten the language of the speakers, who had sound ed again the old notes of the cold war. Indeed one had all but forgotten the young dead in the streets of Budapest. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. SUPPORT THE MARCH OF DIMES 'Inasmuch as Ye Have Done It Unto One of. the Least of . These My Brethren, Ye Have Done It Unto Me." Matthew 25:40 DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Today and By Walter CONCERNING TIGHT MONEY There is an overriding condi tion in our domestic affairs which is that our economy. though e n o r mously pro ductive as compared with any that has ever existed, is still not pro ductive enough for all the de mands made hJSk upon it. With waiter Uppmann f u 1 1 employ ment there Is not enough labor, and with the basic industries in full production there are serious shortages in critical goods. La bor and the materials do not ex ist to supply the total demand. The economy cannot produce all that consumers want to buy, plus all that corporations would like to spend and to borrow for capital goods, plus all that the Federal government needs to spend on defense and its welfare measures, plus all that the state and local governments are being pressed to spend on schools, hos pitals, roads, recreation and oth er public works. Although the American econ omy is growing prodigously, it is not growing fast enough to keep up with the growth of the pop ulation, with the rapid rise in what Americans have come, to expect as their proper standard of living, and with the expand ing commitments and responsi bilities of the United States, which is now the only real great power in the non-Communist world. This is a rich and pro ductive country, but the Ameri can economy is strained and un der severe inflationary pressure. rpHIS situation raises two ma- -1- jor problems of national pol icy. The one, which is well known and generally under stood, is the problem of combat ting inflation that is to say, of managing the supply of money and credit so that the total de mand for goods and services is kept in balance with the supply But insofar as we solve the fundamental problem of pre venting inflation, we run into second problem which is not so well understood. About it there are many differing views amon, the experts and authorities. This is the problem of how to allocate the reduced supply of credit. It is a problem of how to ration credit as between the stronger borrowers, like the big corpora tions, and the weaker borrowers like home builders; and as be tween- public borrowing, say, for schools, and private borrowing as for office buildings. fPHE President showed in his message that he is acutely aware of the primary problem which is how to combat infla tion. Besides exhorting business Congressional Quiz fCopyrlrht. I95 Concressional Quarterly) Q Last Feb. 3, a Senator caused a stir in Congress when he said he had been offered money from lobbyists favoring a certain piece of legislation. Who is the senator and what was the legislation? A Francis Case (R-S.D.) said proponents of a bill to ex empt natural gas producers from federal regulation had offered him a campaign con tribution of $2,500. Case said that because of this, he was opposing the bill. It passed the Senate by a 53-38 vote, but was vetoed by President Ei senhower on Feb. 17 because of what the President termed "arrogant" lobbying efforts in its behalf. Two attorneys sub sequently were fined for not having registered at lobbyists. Tomorrow Lip p man n and labor to practice self-disci pline, the Federal government has two main ways of reducing the inflationary pressure. One is for the government itself to spend less than it takes in taxes. and to budget not for a mere balance but for a surplus. But in fact not much can be done with the budget to combat infla tion. The new budget is expect ed to show only a small surplus, and one can sj y that if this is the best that George Humphrey can do in a period of abounding prosperity, no one else is likely to do so much in any other time. The fact is that about the best the Federal government can do is to keep expenditures from rising as fast as they might. With our growing population and our growing public needs at home and abroad, there is no prospect of reduction in public spending. rpHE real burden of combatting Inflation rests on the Federal Reserve Board because of its power to expand or to contract the volume of money that the banks are able to lend. The Fed eral Reserve Board has been using its power with great cour age and true public spirit The result is the famous tight money policy, and to that policy the country owes the fact that the inflationary rise in prices is be ing held down to moderate pro portions. But as the tight money policy takes effect, the second problem arises. This is the problem of the allocation of the reduced supply of credit among the vari ous interests, public and private, who want to borrow. The alloca tion today is made by the finan cial markets, and as the supply of credit is less than-the demand. the price of credit, that is to fay the rate of interest, is rising. This means that those who can afford to pay the most get the most credit. Credit is expensive and scarce for the weaker inter ests, for small businessmen, tot families in need of mortgages to build homes, and for state and localities needing to borrow for public works. LTHOUGH he did not say so specifically, it is probably fair to assume that this problem was in the President's mind when in his message to Congress he spoke of the need for a broad inquiry into the adequacy of our financial institutions. There is much complaint in Congress on behalf of farmers and business men about the-allocation of cred it as between them and the big corporations. The problem of al location is posed even more sharply for the states and locali ties which need to issue bonds for schools, roads, and other public works. They are finding that the high interest rate and the tight money policy are a great burden. Mr. Arthur Levitt, the Comp troller of New York state, has, for example, pointed out that the cost of borrowing to finance the building of schools has very nearly doubled since 1952. This is a very serious thing. It is a brutal fact which ' interferes greatly with the ideal theory that the localities should meet public needs, like the need for schools, hospitals, low cost hous ing, roads and public recreation. IT IS easier to pose the problem than to solve it. But this much at least is clear. We must resist inflation. We must therefore keep the supply of credit lower than the total needs and wishes of private interests and public authorities. But having done that, we must examine the ques tion whether, in the competition of the financial market, the pub lic interest in schools and other public works is adequately tak en" care of. If it is not, as almost certainly it is not, then we shall have to devise remedies. (Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
