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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) VfeDFORDTRIBlWE "Everyone In SouUiern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" ubiiaheil Daily Exeem Saturday by MEOFOKD PRINTING CO 37 -23 North Fir Sr Phone ROBERT W RUHL. Editor fJERB GREY Advertising Manager KRAi-D LATHAM Business Manager IRIC AIXN JR Managing Editor tARL H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor 2ICHARO JEWETT Sporta Editor OUVZ ST ARCHER Society Editor gALE ERIC KSON. Circuia Uon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 31897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year (15 00 Dally and SundaySix months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mm 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River Talent and on motor route' Daily and Sunday On year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony All Terms Cash in Advance DfflPlal Paper of the City of Medford OfflcUJ Paper of JackSon County United PresfrFull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPAfTY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trott. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATION A . EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ) I. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 60 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1947 (Monday) Jackson County Civic Music associations will open the 1947 season Feb. 5, by presenting the National Male Quartet From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Next Sun day is Ground Hog Day. Many hope the gentleman does not see his shadow and others don't care. 20 YEARS AGO Ian. 27. 1937 (Wednesday) Minimum of $2,400 is set as Jackson county's flood relief quota by national Red Cross headquarters. Cooperation with the Klamath Falls post of the American Le gion in a forest fire prevention program is decided by local le gionnaires. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1927 (Thursday) Judge W. J. Hartzell will pre side at the Boy Scout of honor to be held tonight when Ron ald Kring will be presented with an Eagle badge. Crater Lake National park will undergo this year its most extensive improvement pro gram, according to C. G. Thom son, superintendent. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 27. 1917 (Saturday) About 1.176 fires on the na tional forests of Oregon, Wash ington and Alaska burned over 9.000 acres of timber land in 1916, it is announced. Arrangements for the absorp tion of the Producers' Fruit company of Oregon by the Earle Fruit company of the Northwest are completed. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or trn correct It nperlor: mt en or eight Is excellent: five or elx I fond 1. Was the grain drill, for planting wheat, an American or British invention? 2. Name Eugene Sue's imagi nary parsonage whose existence is based on the history of Christ's passion. 3. What are the first seven words of the Declaration of In dependence? 4. To what question of Pilate did Jesus reply "Thou sayest if? 5. Are fresh fruits more im portant as regulatory or protein foods? 6. Was the "sage of Emporia" an American, Greek, or Italian? 7. There are twelve major planets known to revolve around the sun; true or false? 8. Was Pradjadhipok the king of Thailand (Siam) or Ancient India? 9. What is the feminine of the word comedian? 10. Who wrote "The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." Answers: 1. American. Patent ed 1841. 2. "The Wandering Jew." 3. "When in the course of human events." 4. "Are thou the kino of the Jews?" 5. Regula- tery. 6. American (William Al len White). 7. False. me. o. Thailand. 9. Comedienne. 10. Edward Gibbon. A FINE FIX Newark, N.J. (U.R) Sidney Richman Friday drove down ' town to pay a S2 traffic ticket. He double-parked when he couldn't find a spot and rushed into court to pay his fine. When he returned he found a S5 ticket parked under his windshield wiper. , MAIL TRIBUNE Credit To No One Those OLCC hearings last week had a good many aspects of a low-grade television mystery story. They left unanswered more questions than they resolved. For instance: Did the money go for political campaign purposes or didn't it? If so, to whom? And did or did not the recipients know its origin? Who are the two "unidentified" attorneys? And why the solicitude for them and their prospective "embarrassment"? Should attorneys, simply because they are attorneys, be immune from questioning in a matter of public interest? And why should other at torneys in town be automatically subjects of com munity suspicion, due to the fact that as long as the two are unknown, all are suspect? If there was no wrongdoing, why the reticence? ' ""THERE are other questions, too. The Oregon law which was allegedly violated in this instance is in ORS 471.420. It says: "No licensee under the liquor control act or any dealer in, manufacturer or distiller of intoxicating liquor shall make any contribution to any candidate for political office or to any political party." To the layman, this sounds specific and unequiv ocal. And most of the accused tavern owners, on le gal advice, admit making the contributions in ques tion, most of them with an understanding of what they were for. Yet, on legal advice, they plead inno cent. In effect they are saying, on legal advice, "I did what the law says is illegal. But I am innocent be cause I didn't know what this law, which regulates my licensed activities, said: and I didn't know how the money was to be used, was for a political campaign. The question raised by what it says? Or, through legal interpretation, does it mean something else? Also isn't it true that ignor ance of the law is no defense? AND one more question: " Was the OLCC examiner interested in examin ing? Or was he content to let the attorneys for the "defense" marshal the witnesses and ask the ques tions? The public is entitled to answers to these ques tions. The y are entitled to know if the law has been broken, and if so by whom. They are entitled to know what happened to these contributions. They are en titled to know if the two "unidentified" attorneys who are officers of the courts and as such are quasi public officials acted in a manner befitting the trusted profession of lawyer. '17'HO will answer these questions? Will it be the new liquor control commission, which took office only the other day, in its report on this case? . Will it be the Bar association, which has assumed the responsibility for maintaining the profession in its position of trust and honor? Will it be the Oregon Licensed Beverage Asso ciation, which has worked so hard to change the occupation of tavern keeper from one of odium into one of respect? The hearings, in themselves, reflected credit on no one. If they result in a clearing of the air, and hereafter an honest response to legitimate questions before official investigators, however, they will have been worth while. E.A. Too Bad, But... The Mail Tribune opposed the Hawthorne Park "free-way" route when it was first proposed. t We still do. But the Highway Commission has selected it, so we have to admit the goose is cooked, and those op posed will have to make the best of it, which we herewith will try to do. OOWEVER to keep the record straight we would A A like to note again our main reasons for opposition to this selection. No. I: It runs contrary to accepted modern prac tice in state highway construction namely: that down town and congested business districts should be avoided, and a "freeway" should BE a FREE way that is free as far as possible from urban and local motor traffic. No. 2 : It will impair the beauty and attractive ness of Hawthorne park which has been a valuable community asset and render any development of Bear Creek, as the center of a new, improved and comprehensive park and recreational system for Med ford, unlikely if not impossible. Although for over a third of a mile it will be an "over pass" construction thus avoiding Jackson and Main street crossings, such a construction will tend to separate the city into two dom ol acceess between them and creating (with the "Friendly Southern Pacific") yet another artificial barrier. FINALLY No. 3: Routing the new "free-way" I around the city instead of through it, either to the East or West, WOULD have given the touring motor ist an attractive instead of an unattractive view of Medford, and instead of reducing the much publi cized "tourist business" would, in our humble judg ment have invited and increased it. OOWEVER as indicated above, the State Highway I I commission apparently decided to "follow the election returns" in this case the results of their hearings held in Medford and the pressures resulting therefrom and as the Commission has the final au- Sunday, January 27. 1957 even though I thought it this is : Does the law mean distinct areas, limiting free Matter of Fact By jo aisop SOVIET GRAND STRATEGY Moscow It has been an as tonishing experience, here in Moscow-; to read the reports of Seer etary of State Dulles' testimony on the Eisenhow er Doctrine for the Middle East. Such hours have been devoted to the discus sion of dangers that hardly ex ist. The very real dangers that do exist have been so rapidly glossed over. The very violence of the So viet reaction to the President's new doctrine must of course give a look of truth to the ad ministration's warnings about the possibility of Soviet armed aggression in the Arab lands. But in fact there is not the slightest evidence here to sug gest in any way that the Soviets have any intention of using their armed might in the Middle East, either now or for years to come. Indeed, all the evidence indi cates that the Soviet leaders never had any real intention of resorting to force at any time during the Suez crisis, even at the moment when Premier Bul ganin sent his threatening note to London and Paris and some thing unpleasantly like panic reigned in Washington. In truth, the real reason for the intensity of the Soviet reaction to the Eisenhower Doctrine was frank ly stated by a brilliant Soviet expert on foreign affairs, who is the only member of the local hierarchy with whom this re porter has yet been able to talk at length. "WE THINK," he said, "that ' this is a pretext for put ting the buckle on the chain of American bases which surround the Soviet Union." This does not mean, however, that the Soviet program in the Middle East will now be aban doned. In a very long and quite absorbing conversation about the present and future world balance of power, there was one point on which the Soviet expert quoted above was visibly sin cere. The Soviets, he insisted, would never be content to let well enough (or bad enough) alone in the Middle East or any other troubled area on the West ern side of the line that now di vides the world. In the same fashion, in Paris after the first London confer ence on Suez, Soviet Foreign Minister Shepilov flatly told the French leaders that his country "could never under any circum stances abandon its historic mis sion" of assisting in the "libera tion" of peoples seeking to throw off the "colonial yoke." Maybe the position would be different if it were certain that Soviet interventions on our side of the line could lead to general war, as it might have led to war if the American government had behaved about Hungary as the Soviet government behaved about Egypt. Maybe, indeed, the intervention, in the Middle East would never have been attempt ed, if it had not been for the fa mous Summit meeting held at Geneva. Editorial Comment HAWTHORNE ROUTE Decisions this week of the state highway commission to use the so-called Hawthorne park route for the construction of the new section of U.S. 99 in the Medford area settles the last problem of location of the 2$ mile project which starts south of Ashland and ends north of Central Point. The action by the highway board means that Medford will be the only city between Port land and the Oregon line in which the high-speed four lane road will cut through the heart of a community. In other cases the cities and towns are being by-passed. . Here at Ashland, the route will be above Bear creek. Rose burg has already been by-passed as has Salem. One factor in the board's an nounced decision seemed to be that following the Hawthorne park route would result in a minimum loss of valuable land such as orchard property and homes. However, it would seem to an outside observer that the route selected for Medford may have some distinct disadvan tages for it will inevitably result in a physical division of that city wih the super-road cutting through the center of the com munity. We are inclined to be lieve that if we resided in Med ford, we would not be too haopy about the choice. Ashland Tidings. aWm'aJasI Joseph Alsop thority in such matters, there is nothing we can see for the opposition to do buf'grin and bear it." How ever If Medford grows in the next ten years as it has in the past we hope it will and there are indications such a hope is justified we believe the error of such a selection will then be conceded by most of those who today for various reasons so strongly support it. : R.W.R. TJERE in Moscow, this reporter has certainly found plenty of expert support for the opin ion that President Eisenhower and Sir Anthony Eden were all uo successful at Geneva, in ex plaining their remorseless dedi cation to peace at any price. At any rate, it must have been de lightful for the Soviet leaders to hear about this dedication just when a wholly new Middle East ern program was being tenta tively weighed. Thereafter, the old Far East ern emphasis of Soviet policy was at least temporarily aban doned. The links were formed with Egypt's President Nasser and the other Arab nationalists. The Middle Eastern program, which essentially consists of en couraging the Arabs to do w"hat they want to do anyway, was adroiUy launched. The danger of the program lies in the fact that vengeance on the Western nations for the wrongs real and imagined is the immediate goal of Arab nation alism. The link with the Soviets in turn gives the Arab leaders the self confidence to seek this vengeance in ways that can well prove fatal to the Western pow ers and especially to Great Brit ain. ' Yet thus encouraging the Arabs to do what they want to do costs the Soviets very little and involves a minimum of risk. SUCH is the major present theme of Soviet grand strat egy. One can only admire the cool daring and astute calcula tion of this strateev which gives the Soviet leaders a good chance of rather decisively upsetting the world balance of power ai such small cost to themselves, nno cannot feel this strategy will be successfully countered, either, simply by telling tne So viets they must not do the one thing they do not mean to do. Yet the words have been spok en by the President. If they are now taken back by congress, tho aftor affects are likely to make the Summit meeting ap pear bv comparison, like one 01 the more hard headed episodes of Bismarckian diplomacy. Copyright 195 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS tt s Rudffet Director Perci tal Rrunriacrp was testifying in Washington before the appropria tions committee of the house oi representatives. Thp tpietvne aaas: "Members of the committee are looking for places to CUT the proposed n mmon auuai federal budget." TF THE members of the house appropriations committee are really serious in their desire to cut the budget proposed recently by the President, they might con sult the report of tne noover ccommission for government re organization. It will tell them how they can cut 5V4 BILLION dollars a year off the budget without impair ing any basically necessary func tion of the federal government including national defense and the basic social services. The cut would come out of what might be called the FLUFF of federal spending including what for decades has been known as the "pork barrel." A SAVING of 5V4 billion dol- lars wouldn't be hay. Assuming that our present population is somewhere in the neighborhood of 167,000,000, each billion dollars the govern ment spends costs you about $6, If you are the breadwinner for a family of four, each billion spent by government costs you in the neighborhood of $24. So If by careful and businesslike economy the federal government could cut its expenditures as much as five and a half billion dollars it would save you as an individual some $33 a year. If you are the breadwinner for a family of four, it would save you something like $132 a year. If you are an average indi vidual or an average breadwin ner for a family of four, you could probably use that amount very nicely. LET'S take a sharp look at this business of government spend ing. There's a lot of politics in it. This is the politics of the situ ation: At this particular moment in history, the executive depart ment of our government (headed by the President) is in the hands of the Republicans. The legis lative department (the congress) is controlled by the Democrats. If the congress can put the bee on the President (in this spend ing controversy) the Democratic chances of winning the Presiden cy in 1960 will be improved (ac cording to political reasoning). If the President can put the bee on congress, Republican chances Communications Letters tc the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reservs the right to edit all letters with e view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Do You Remember? To the Editor: Do you re member when a chicken incu bator was considered a miracle? When we were told an apple a day kept the doctor away? When everyone wore "patent leather" shoes? When rural smokers puffed corncob pipes? When banks had stacks of five, ten and twenty dollar gold pieces behind the cashier's cage for exchanging of customers checks or gold dust? When hard ware stores sold gasoline to use in gas manUe lamps? When he men wore watch fobs and fancy vests? When every school stu dent possessed an autograph al bum? When you were slighted if you did not get a comic val entine around February 14th? When everyone drank some sassafras tea every spring? When everyone hoped the groundhog would not see his shadow on Feb. 2nd? "Seems like all a dream now." Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford, Ore. He Didn't Live Long Enough" To the Editor: My husband died in November of 1955, after a long and costly illness. His ill ness and death, and the later injury of my oldest son, took all our savings and made my family dependent on public support. It has been a long and bitter strug gle to keep going. After my husband's death, I found among his papers a book let which showed that he, as a member of a well-known frater nal organization, was entitled both to weekly financial assist ance while sick, and to a small death benefit. He had belonged for five years. I made a number of attempts to obtain these payments to which I felt entitled, but was put off, for one reason or another, with no satisfactory explanation given to me. When I asked why, I was told that my husband "didn't live long enough" to be entitled to death benefits. I was also told they were "glad" I had not asked for their services at the funeral, because it would have cost them "a half day's wages." What was done was done. It has now been more than a year. My reason for writing now is the hope that by making this known, some other person will not be hurt and deprived in the same way I was. I admit I am bitter about it, particularly when the leaders of the organization make public statements about the "good" they do for their members and for the community. But my reason for telling this now is not for any sort of "revenge," but as a warn ing that things are not always what they seem. If other mem bers know of these things, per haps they will be less likely to happen in the future. Mrs. Ben Blachly, 305 Effie st., Medford, Ore. Today and By Walter THE SECOND INAUGURAL The second inaugural is a statement of the President's ideals and of his hopes. It does not contain any definition of the policies, much less of the programs, which in his mind could best realize his hopes and ideals. The re- c2ul suit is to give Walter Llppmnn a impression of unlimitedness, of a lack of measure, of pledges and prom ises beyond the bounds of what is really possible, beyond the bounds, in fact, of what he him self actually intends to do and of what Congress would actu ally permit him to do. Thus he affirmed with great energy his opposition to isola tionism, which in its ultimately logical form is the conception of fortress America. But was it not going to the other extreme to say that "we accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere?" Can it really be the policy of the United States government to become deeply involved in the destiny of men everywhere? In the realm of the spirit it is no doubt true that all men are brothers and that nothing human can be alien of winning control of congress in 1960 will be improved. Hence the political tussle over who is responsible for spending too much. LET'S take a look at fhe facts. The President PROPOSES the amount to be spent that is to say, the budget. The congress APPROPRIATES THE MONEY. IN OTHER words If the congress thinks the President is being recklessly ex travagant in his spending pro posals, it can refuse to appropri ate as much money as he asks. That is the long and the short of it. He Isn't For Nasser To the Editor: It's OK by me for a Medford resident to be proud of a letter from would-be dictator Nasser, who seems will ing to bring his people to woe and want if the builders of the big ditch at Suez (that brought wealth to his poverty stricken land) are made to suffer more. Well, this writer is' equally proud of a letter from Queen Elizabeth of England expressing appreciation for the Mail Trib une news clipping and a letter of good-will for her -country's respect of treaties instead of a Hitlerian "scrap of paper," and direct action instead of the im potent note of protest, in protec tion of Britain-France rights in the canal and rights of all na tions to use it, endorsed as the invasion was by old Winston Churchill whose gutty courage helped to save us from the Hit ler-Nazi yoke. Such loyalty we must not forget. The tragedy and mistake is in our siding with the enemy, giving that despot the go-ahead tn write the threatening note, ob viously a bluff, and to strength en the English opposition, bring ing dismal failure to the plan for someone to head off Egypt i hpln in fair handling of the canal. Now the Eisenhower doc trine threatens to do what we helped stop Britain-France from doing. Never has it been my habit to be a nodding yes-man when Nasser or anv other Red deieno- er sends an agent here as was done recently to drive still deep pr the wedee between us and Britain and France, the agent also advising us to take an iso lationist neutrality, that hatred of Russia by mid-east nations would keep them free, yes, like th asp-old hatred of Poland, Hungary and others kept them "free." But the Egyptian did want us to keep the dollars go ing, especially to Egypt which, he complained, hadn't had her share. It took close attention to fol low the speaker's clipped Oxford-like accent, .but his critic ism of our armed strength was plain, reminded by me in my one chance to speak that it was the only language Russia re spected and that the millions spent under Marshall and give away plans to help others, had raised our taxes to limits hard to reach. And our reward? Mostly hatred, including Egypt. F. J. Clifford, 1211 West Main, Medford, Ore. civir.c BEBELS Algiers (U.R) French troops moved into the Algeria-Morocco I border area west of Oran Satur ! day to search for a savage rebel , band which marched 19 men to a ! cemetery, shot them, cut their i thrnats and then draned their bleeding bodies over the tomb stones. Tomorrow Llppmann to a good man. But in the realm where governments operate, it is always a question of practical policy as to where, as to how dppnlv in what measure and in what degree, one government can and should involve liseii with the destiny of other men. Is it not an inflation of the moral currency for the head of a government, charged with the conduct of practical affairs, to make it appear that .the alter native to a narrow isolationism is universal involvement? o THE absence of practical policy for the real world makes it difficult to be sure one has un derstood the central argument of the address. The world, he said in the earlier part of the address, is divided by the devis ive force of international Com munism and of the power it controls. The Communist orbit is, however, shaken by the re bellion of people who, like the Hungarians, wish to be free. Our purpose, the President went on to say, is to build a peace with justice where moral law pre vails. Presumably, the realiza tion of this ideal depends upon the ability of the peoples of the Soviet orbit, including the peo ples of Russia itself, to over throw the divisive force of inter national Communism. The question which puzzles me is what is to be our own pol icy in the period, which may be quite prolonged, until these hopes of an internal revolution are realized. The address throws no light on that question. Yet this is the paramount question with which we shall be living for an indefinite time to come. It is not a policy to sit waiting and hoping for a revolution inside the Soviet orbit which will re move the problems that interna tional Communism presents. The President does not mean to chal lenge the Soviet orbit which will remove the problems that inter national Communism presents. The President does not mean to challenge the Soviet orbit with arms. He cannot, surely, expect J POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) While the United States is talking about curbing the filibusters of politicians, the Medford Kiwanis club has done something about it. Members of the city council were guests at the club's noon luncheon last week. All were properly introduced (and the mayor was made an honorary member) but none of them were permitted to talk. A young lady motorist was driving down the highway the other day when, to her horror, she-saw a truck pulled over to the side of the road and a man lying on the ground nearby. "A terrible accident, she thought. and she pulled off the road to see if she could help. Well, the truck was just out of, gas, and the man on the ground was just trying to make a- mechanical adjustment. She offered to drive for gas, but found when she returned to her own car, it was too far over on the shoulder, and was stuck in the sand. So, she and the truck driver chatted for about an hour, until someone else brought gas for the truck, the truck pulled her car from the sand, and everyone drove off. The home economics class of a Medford school was hav ing a demonstration night not long ago, and mothers were invited io come and sample the cooking done by their daughters. One mother, who was on a special diet recom mended by her doctor, brought a friend along to sample her daughter's cooking for her. A deputy sheriff who recent ly drove to Pasadena, Calif., to pick up a prisoner, started to tell about the trip this way: "We left Pasadena in beauti ful sunshine, which followed us all the way to the Siskiyous.' Then we hit snow. The car skid--ded sideways, and went over a 20-foot bank. I managed to get out of the wreckage and free the prisoner, a burly man of some 280 pounds. I lifted him to my back and carried him up the bank in heroic fashion . .. " At this point he was interrupt ed by loud and disrespectful noises from his fellow deputies, who proceeded to give him the tiUe of "Mr. Liar of 1957." Our favorite school paper, the Lincoln Legend, arrived last week, and on reading it we learned that the most not able thing about George Wash ington was his memory. They built a monument to it. The thing we like best about the Legend (aside from its jokes) is the direct, forthright job of reporting which its staff does. Witness this story from the pen of Cheryl Champion: "We had three visitors in our school last week. They were girls from Medford High school who might decide to become teachers. They came to Lincoln school to observe some classes . . . We hope they decide to be teachers. We liked them." Two Groups Ask Wage increases Portland (U.R) The State Public Welfare Commission was faced Saturday with request from two groups for more money. TVi Drpffnn Funeral Directors association asked for fees of $165 fnr Kprvices now nrovided for $75 or $80. The services do not include the casket and cemetery plot or crematorium expenses. Operators of licensed nursing nnmps had asked for a $65 monthly increase in pay for wel fare, recipients at a previous meeting. They asked the welfare department to back them in re quests they will make to me Legislature. n Hpfpat it with DroDaganda. And in the address there is no suggestion' that he is thinking of negotiating with it. MY OWN view is that the world has become divided, and that there is no prospect within any foreseeable future that it can be united, as the President hopes, in one world which recognizes the same moral laws. We are in a period resembling the centuries in which Christendom and a mil itant Islam were in conflict, and there is no more prospect of a universally accepted moral order now than there was then. It may be misleading for the people, and distracting for the makers of foreign policy, to sponsor the idea that a universal moral order is an attainable goal of American foreign policy. Our true goal, it seems to me, is to sustain our own moral order among the peoples who in fact subscribe to the same order, and beyond that, to aim not at a universal agreement but at ac comodation among deep differ ences and, as against the hot stew of the ideologies, to evoke the cooling spirit of live and let live. (C) 1957 New York Herald ' Tribune Inc.
