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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) Medforiv,Tribune -Everyone to Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" PubiLshfa Oaiiv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27 -2S North Fir St Phone 2-611 ROBERT W RlfHL. Editor HKRB GREY Advertising Manager CtKAt-D LATH A uuneu Manager ERIC AUi-EN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulauon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clasa matter at Med ford Oregon under Act OX March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S15 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mna 425 Sunday Only One vear 4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. 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Holmes of the B'ar Creek orchards is getting sand In his shoes at Palm Springs. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1937 (Friday) Frank DeSouza announces ticket sales for annual presi dent's birthday ball tomorrow are better than ever. Names of Medford residents delinquent in improvement as sessments will be published, ac cording to J. O. Grey, in charge of real estate and collections. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 29. 1927 (Saturday) Attendance at Medford High school is 614 this year com pared to 486 last year. Local chamber of commerce making efforts to send delega tion to eighth annual meeting of Oregon State Chamber in Portland. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1917 (Monday) Annual meeting of Southern Oregon Poultry association held at public market was largest ever held in Jackson county. From Local and Personal col umn: W. F. Isaacs and Chris Gotlieb leave for Salem where they will lobby for the bill pro posing closure of Rogue River. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct U superior: sev en or eight Is excellent: (We or six ts eood 1. School slates were first manufactured in the U.S., near the Delaware river (1827), in which state. 2. Which two states were once part of Oregon Territory? 3. Bible: "When the Lord passed through the land of Egypt" did He "smite" the Egyp tian first born of "man" only? 4. The name "Columbia" was often given to which geographic area, from a feeling of poetic justice? 5. Were any of the following U.S. senators a Democrat: Hiram Johnson, LaFollette, Taft? 6. General Eisenhower once had his headquarters in Frank furt, Germany: true or false? 7. Are dairy products normal ly fat-forming foods? 8. The "President's March" was composed by Teyles in 1788 on the occasion of which Presi dent's visit to New York City? 9. Is it proper for one recov ering from an illness to say "I am well now"? 10. "Hail. Columbia. Happy Land" and "The President's March" have what in common? Answers: I. Pennsylvania. 2. Washington and Idaho. 3. No. "Beasts" also. 4. The New World (from Columbus, as opposed to the name America). 5. None. All Republicans. 6. True. 7. Yes. 8. George Washington. 9. No. Better. 10. Both have the same air. The Kuril islands lying be tween Alaska and Siberia, de rived their name from Russia's "kuril" which is the word for smoking. There are reported to be active volcanoes on the islands. MAIL TRIBUNE "Horatio at the Bridge" In youth our greatest hero next to "Deerfoot" was that gent "Horatio" who "kept the bridge."- As Lord Macaulay stated in the "Lays of Ancient Rome": "And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers. And the temples of his Gods." It is undoubtedly a far cry POETICALLY, from the "Lays of Ancient Rome" and Lord Macaulay to Senator Fulbright of Arkansas and the Congressional Record. But it is not so far POLITICALLY. At any rate when the Arkansas senator, declared that he would vote against the Eisenhower declara tion regarding the Mid East, unless Secretary of State Dulles first issued a "White Paper" explaining it, we did think of him approvingly as a political "Horatio at the bridge," fighting against overwhelming, odds, but not flinching from what he regarded as his duty, and without even the support of his own party lead ers, slugging it out, regardless of the political conse quences to himself. yE LIKED that spirit. We still do. And Senator Fulbright had a case. Recently returned from a trip to Europe, and shocked by the loss of American prestige abroad, he maintained that when the administration asked that congress SHARE in the responsibility of taking such drastic action in the Mid-East, as suggested, it should also SHARE with the congress, information which had warranted it. He said he didn't know what had happened, and he did not believe any one outside of the state and executive departments did know. Before the con gress, therefore, handed over a "blank check" for $200,000,000, and gave the green light for military action (if necessary) he thought the congress which controls Uncle Sam's money bags SHOULD know, what had changed the situation "over there" so com pletely. THE Arkansas senator did not say, but he must have known that the one big change in the situa tion is what happened in this country on November 6. That day the presidential campaign ended with a landslide vote of confidence for President Eisen hower. Therefore and thereafter the need for mis representing the situation,' particularly in the Mid East no longer existed. So overnight, so to speak, the picture in that part of the world, particularly in and near the Suez, changed officially from one of perfect serenity, sweetness and light, to one of "doom and gloom," the transformation being so abrupt that1 even some of the President's strong supporters were puzzled by it, But with the President's personal popularity and national prestige raised by this avalanche of votes to even greater heights than before, what could they, or anyone else, DO about it? The answer, of course, is, nothing. Nothing effective at least. All Secretary of State Dulles had to do with the hecklers and doubters, was to ask as he did somewhat plaintively "Don't you TRUST the President?" That did it! Of course they trust him, as do an overwhelming majority of the people. As the polls conducted by "C.B.S." showed so clearly, however, not one out of ten of the rank and file know what the Eisenhower doctrine was or is, but if "Ike" was for it they are for it too. One woman voter we believe it was in Port land in response to the doctrine inquiry, replied : "If Roosevelt is for it, it must be ok." She didn't even know who is President! Hardly a typical example,, of course. But the poll did show an appalling absence of information and understanding on the part of the American electorate as to what the "shooting is all about." CENATOR Fulbright obviously does not share this ignorance or blind faith. In his interview over "Face the Nation" on Sunday, he was careful to point out, that he is not seeking the downfall of Secretary of State Dulles, or necessarily any repudiation of the Eisenhower doc trine. He admitted he might, with adequate informa tion provided, be in favor of both. But he wants the information FIRST. Such a request appears reasonable enough. For if there is any great URGENCY in the matter, as far as any overt-action by Russia is concerned, no evidence to that effect from any source has been presented, so a natural assumption would seem to be no such evidence exists. However, "evidence" in such a situation of mass infatuation is not required. At last report Senator Fulbright is still holding the bridge, however, single-handed, but unlike Ho ratio he is, we fear, doomed to defeat. THERE are just too many guns against him. Not only is the elephant in full cry across that bridge, but the donkey is refusing to use its powerful rear batteries in defense of him. The Arkansas senator is too smart he has one of the highest "IQ's" in the entire congress not to re alize this, but he has too much integrity and determin ation of character to quit a cause he believes to be right, simply because he doubts his ability to win it. So there he is or was at last report slugging it out. If he can't get the information before the declara tion is oked, he may be able to get it afterward. At any rate we wish him luck. He is the type of senator we like, and we only regret there are not more of that type in both houses of the Congress. The coun try needs them! R.W.R. Tuesday, January 29. 1957 France's Algerian Problem Near Showdown, in Africa and U.N. By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Algerian dispute is ap proaching a showdown both in the United Nations and on the wua w mm SDot in French North Africa. Among the is sues involved are France's fu ture relations with its 847, 500 - s q u a re mile Algerian possess ion, France's rela- rharles McCanD tlOns With the United States. By demand of "anti-colonial" Asian and Afri can nations, the U.N. is to start debate this week probably Wednesday on the demands of Algerian nationalists for com plete independence. In anticipation of the debate, Algerian rebels have ordered an eight -day general strike throughout the country. French Foreign Minister Chris tion Pineau is in New York to lead the French U.N. delegation during discussion of Algeria. Orders the Facts Premier Guy Mollet has or dered Pineau to give the facts, as France sees them, of the Al gerian problem. But France will not argue about it. It will not seek to justify its Algerian policy and it will deny the competence of the U.N. to intervene in what it regards as a purely internal question. The U.N. can take no real action. But France would re gard an unfavorable vote as a direct affront. In a statement of policy made in Paris on Jan. 9, Mollet said that the first essential was that the rebels order .a cease-fire in the revolt which broke out Nov. 1, 1954. Within three months after a cease-fire, Mollet said, France will hold a free election aimed at giving equal rights, and a great measure of home rule, to Algeria's 8.3 million Moslems and 1.2 million Frenchmen. But Mollet announced: "France will never abandon Algeria." The French government has gone to extraordinary lengths 10 Million Kids Said 'Short Changed' by Shortage in Schools By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) At least 10 million American kids are being short-changed on their education because of the na tion's schoolroom shortage. That is the "conservative" es timate of education officials here. It is based on surveys by the U. S. Office of Education, the National Education Assn. and other agencies. These surveys show that at least 840,000 children, mostly in the primary grades, are attend ing public schools in shifts this year. They are on half-day or other part-time class schedules. Another 5.7 million element ary school children are trying to learn how to read, spell and multiply in classrooms that have 35 or more students in them. To say that 35 children of this age "overcrowd" . a classroom and make teaching difficult is, in the opinion of educators, a massive understatement. Thirty is con sidered a maximum for effective teaching and many experts fav or 20 or less. Many Schools Dilapidated Finally, upwards of 3.5 mil lion children are attending schools which are so old as to be dilapidated and, in some cases dangerous. Nearly a fifth of all U.S. schools are more than 50 years old; some in use are close to 100 years old. These schools lack the facilities for ordinary comfort, let alone the use of modern educational techniques. This is the situation that Pres ident Eisenhower wants Con gress to relieve with a four-year $2.2 billion federal aid program. The roots of the present school room crisis go all the way back to the depression of the early 1930's. In those hard times, the school districts had trouble rais ing enough tax money to pay teacher salaries, to say noth ing of putting up fine new schools. Restricted Use of Materials . By the time the economy be gan to snap back. World War II was upon us, and the govern ment restricted . use of scarce materials for "non-essential" projects such as new schools. By the end, of the war, the nation had taken a 15-year holi day from school construction. The states started out in 1946-47 with a modest building program 9,009 classrooms in all mainly aimed at replacing some of the older, prewar buildings which were about to fall down. Then the baby boom hit. Post war birth rates soared, and al though school districts sharply increased their construction out lays each year, the new build ings were never quite enough to take care of the tremendous in flux of new students. 8 Vr-r..... I to strengthen its position for the U.N. debate and the vote which is expected to follow it. Mollet sent Pineau to Wash ington earlier this month to try to persuade Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to support France. Dulles failed to give the de sired assurance. Mollet also called in to his Paris office the diplomatic en voys of more than 30 U.N. countries to try to line them up on France's side. Work of Lobbyists Little Known to Most Washington (CQ) Just what is a lobbyist and what does he do in an average working day? If you don't know, you prob ably have lots of company. A 1949 survey indicated 45 per cent of the people in the U.S. never heard of the word "lobby ist;" 25 per cent thought lobby ists exerted a bad influence on Congress; 15 per cent said they served a useful purpose; and 15 per cent had no opinion. To many, the word "lobby ist" connotes a shifty-eyed char acter who fast-talks a Congress man into doing special favors in' exchange for votes or cash. Congress defines a lobbyist as any "person who shall engage himself for consideration for the purpose of attempting to influ ence the passage or defeat of any legislation" by Congress. The late Sen. James A. Reed (D Mo.) once said "a lobbyist is any one who opposes legislation I want. A patriot is anyone who supports me." Lobbyists who prefer to be called legislative representatives represent groups of people or organizations ranging from the National Assn. of Manufacturers to the AFL-CIO to the Active Retired Lighthouse Service Em ployees Assn. Protect Employer Interest It's their job to present the views of their employers to Con gress, to see the interests of their employers helped and not hurt by legislation Congress passes. As such, lobbyists often are called the "Third House of Congress." Backgrounds and techniques of individual lobbyists vary about as much as do the groups they represent, but those of George D. Riley of the AFL-CI& are an example. Riley is one of five AFL-CIO lobbyists at the national federation level. . An affable Missourian, Riley came to the AFL-CIO after 13 years spent reporting on the old Washington Times-Herald and a year each as operations director of the Government Employees Council and staff director of the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee. His day generally begins at AFLrOO headquarters on the other side of the park across from the White House where he reads four morning newspapers, giving special attention to politi cal news. He also catches up on office communications and dic tates a few letters concerning legislation member unions are interested in. His next stop is Capitol Hill, about 15 blocks from his office, where he calls on Members of Congress. Appointments usually are made in advance. Greets New Members On this visit at the beginning of a new Congress, Riley intro duced himself to freshman Con gressmen, saying, as he did in one office, "I just came by to say hello and let you know we'd be glad to help you out on any problems that you may run into in our field." The conversation worked around to legislation that soon would be coming up in Cngress, and Riley explained the AFL-CIO position. In one office, Riley did more listening than talking. The Con gressman wondered aloud why the AFL-CIO was not protesting imports that were causing un employment in the Congress man's district. He checked in at the Senate subcommittee investigating the progress of the national high way program. Riley said one of his main concerns was making sure labor was not blamed by in dustry witnesses for delaying the program without getting in an answer. Several committee members were primed to ask Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eve to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The Law of Compensation To the Editor: I see by the morning's paper a man's life was endangered by getting his foot caught in the railroad tracks. How safe he would have been had it been the Southern Pacific. About two months ago I broke an axle on the Fourth st. cross ing in Medford. I went back the following Sat turday and got my car. You nave asked us our opin- If France lost Algeria, after losing Indochina and giving in dependence to Morocco and Tunisia, which flank Algeria on the west and east, its position as a world power would be threatened. Anew angle of the Algerian situation is that France has high hopes that it can supply all of its oil needs within 15 years from fields in the Sahara Desert, mostly in Algeria. It has launch ed a S714 million five-year plan to develop the oil resources. witnesses about labor so both sides were on record. Coordinate Strategy At lunch, Riley met with other labor lobbyists at their unoffi cial Washington headquarters. a downtown hotel. There, at a constantly reserved table, Riley and representatives from the postal workers and iron work ers discussed mutual problems, exchanged information. Snap legislative strategy some times springs from these lunch eon discussions, maybe to get AFL-CIO members in the field to write or wire their Congress man about a bill or to get a friendly lawmaker appointed to a certain committee. Generally, however, the AFL-CIO pressure tactics have been plotted well in advance. After lunch, the labor repre sentatives went separate ways. Riley put In a plug for federally determined wage scale provis ions while talking with a Con gressman about a proposed pro gram for building civil defense shelters. Late in the day, Riley met with Senators interested in pass ing a bill to supply federal aid to areas suffering from heavy unemployment.- The talk cen tered on who should introduce the bill; who should floor man age it; which wavering votes could be won over; what was the best way to get it out of committee; what provisions shuld be revised to make the bill's sledding easier; what should the timing be? From about 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Riley tried "to touch all the bases" during three separate ho tel dinners. George Meany, AFL CIO president, was the speaker at one of them. From the dinners, it was home to his wife, the evening papers and sleep providing there were no telephone calls Copyright 1957, Congressional Quarterly) In the Day's News By FRANK Troubled world note: More than 80,000 Moslems have stormed through Karachi (capital of Pakistan) burning ef figies of Prime Minister Nehru of India clashing with police. The demonstrations protested India's formal ANNEXATION today of Southern Kashmir. WHAT'S is all about? It's a long story. We can only brief it here. WHEN British India gained its independence from Britain a decade ago, it was divided into Mahammedan Pakistan and Hin du India the reason being that the Mohammedans and the Hin dus couldn't get along with each other. So the two independent states were set up Pakistan to be Mohammedan-ruled and In dia to be Hindu-ruled. That is where Kashmir comes in. Kashmir is heavily Moham madan, but by a dynastic freak it was ruled by a Hindu mahara ja. Having supreme power, he attached his princely state to Hindu India. There was a terrific ruckus over it, and a lot of shooting. The ruckus has continued over most of the past ten years. It got into the United Nations, which called some years ago for a free election to let the PEOPLE of Kashmir decide whether they will belong to Pakistan or to India. Only two days ago, the U.N. called AGAIN for free elections to let the people of Kashmir de cide who was to govern them. NEHRU'S India refused to per mit the issue to be settled by a vote of the people concerned, and on Friday FORMALLY ANNEXED the two-thirds of Kashmir it has been controlling since the dispute began. WHY does that interest US? Well, it gives us an interest ing slant on this man Nehru, who has been posing as the Great Anti-Colonialist. Accord ing to him. it was terrible when Britain ruled India. It was ter rible when The Netherlands (Holland) ruled Indonesia. ion in regard to a highway through Medford. Why not drop the rails of the S.P. ten feet and gq under the city? Everett Acklin Box 233, Ashland, Ore. . Matter of Facf By josePh u MOSCOW EVENINGS Moscow The embassy was one of the monstrous former pal aces ci Moscow sugar million aires which the Soviet gov ernment con siders appro priate for the more impor t a n t foreign here. The setting was therefore surrea list vast rooms of wildly clashing styles positively writhing with carved marble and molded stuc co and gilded and frescoed orna ments. Against this fantastic background, the little party of Westerners seemed slightly out of place. Yet the two ambassa dors talked shrewdly about the Soviet economy. The food and the champagne were delicious. Altogether, it was rather like a particularly civilized picnic in the middle of a movie set left over from the earlier period of Cecil B. de Mille. Back at the hotel, a French newspaper man and an Italian colleague were waiting for a nightcap. Both were rather typi cal European intellectuals, bear ing in their different ways the scars of Europe's agony in the last war. The Italian, who had been a pupil of Benedetto Croce, proposed as a topic the applica tion co the Soviet Union of Croce's dictum that history is merely the story of human free dom. TERE the faint stirrings al ' ready . discernible here the hopeful precursors of a hopelul evolution, which might take many decades but would end with a good result? Or would the iron silence of the night of the soul soon again descend upon this brave and vital people? The verdict, when the Frenchman went to bed at last, was on the whole in favor of a better hu man future. By then the big party some Polish students were giving next door had reached a roaring cli max, and Alfredo, the Italian, suggested joining the fun. The Polish hosts were already leav ing, but Mirko and Jan, two of ficials of a Czechoslovak eco nomic ministry on detached serv ice in Moscow, had taken firm possession of the piano. Mirko, an ex-bourgeois who must have been a bit uncomfort able during the attack on 'root less cosmopolitans" was a superb pianist with a repertory of French songs borrowed how long ago! from Yvette Giloert. Jan was a tall, slender, powerful fellow with a great shock of dark hair, who rather strangely I wore the tweed coat and slacks JENKINS Why, he repeated over and over, the British and the Dutch imposed their rulership on un willing people BY FORCE! Such things mustn't be permitted! The people concerned must be allowed to run their own affairs in their own way. But When it comes to a question of who will run the rich state of Kashmir the historic Vale of Kashmir, where the cashmere shawls and the original and only genuine cashmere cloth come from he refuses to per mit ;he people of Kashmir to de cide in a free election whether they will go with Pakistan or with India and steps in and ANNEXES two-thirds of the country. After that, I can't help the feeling that if we took Nehru's shoes off we'd find that inside them are feet of clay. IS hard to escape the conclu sion that in the beginning Nehru was all right. One can't help admiring his long fight to free India from foreign rule. If he has changed as this Kashmir business suggest s what has happened to him? This must be the answer: He has been corrupted by TOO MUCH POWER. Too much power is apt to ruin anybody. TALK ADDS TOLLS Niles, Mich. (U.R) The more Harry McDowl, Greenfield, Ind., talked Monday, the more ex pensive his terms became. Jus tice of the Peace Joseph Low fined McDowl $15 for speeding, added $15 for telling the arrest ing officer "I hope you get a belly full of lead," and then told him to hand over $15 more for protesting to him about it. He made McDowl pay $4.30 more for court costs. Hi OIL TO Joseph Alsop jfebilheat , DISTRIBUTOR LET US FILL YOUR TANK TODAY! MEDFORD FUEL CO. Court and McAndrews Telephone 2-21 1 1 WE GIVE "S&!V GREEN STAMPS of an American college boy and sang the old Czech anti-Austrian songs with resonant passion. The little smiling waiter had the Russian weakness for music. So the doors were shortly clojed; more drinks appeared; and the waiter contributed "Vol ga, Volga" to the concert. The happy singing went on, for hours in an atmosphere of asy, natur al intimacy, "proving," as Alfre do remarked not absolutely log ically, "that the human race will be perfectly all right if only governments will let the human race alone." Even after that. there was long political argu ment with Mirko in the bleak stairwell of the hotel, in which Mirko suddenly sounded less like a human being than politi cal gramophone record. TF THESE trivia are worth re- cording, which is doubtful, it is only because they suggest the violent and startling contrasts of a visit to Moscow. Foreigners here are insulated, and the insu lation is all the more complete if you are a temporary visitor lapped in the luxury which In tourist most efficiently provides. Such a visitor must largely ac cept the judgment of more ex pert and permanent foreign ob server of the Soviet Union. And the most brilliant of these has said that his task is "like psycho analyzing the actors in a play after watching them on the stage." You elbow your way into the crowded, dreary shops. You trail behind the patient, cheerful queues of soldiers and young people who start at the Krem lin treasures in popeyed won der. You watch the hurrying. bundled-up crowds in the streets, and you note the marks their hard lives leave on most of them. But you cannot get through to them, except in sud den flashes of human self revela tion which come when you least expect them. m m m IF YOU are lucky enough, take lovely Swedish Anna out to dinner. Anna is superbly tair, charmingly fine boned and beau tifully high-colored; and when she walks into a dining room full of rather drab people seek ing escape in an evening of ex pensive luxury, they respond to her as they might respond to the sudden, delightful but incredible appearance of a bird of paradise. Or fall into conversation with the demobilized officer at the next table, who still wears his shabby, insignia-less uniform: Hear the note of pride in his voice, when he apologizes for only knowing a few words of German, such as "hands up." Or watch the look on Mirko's face when you remind him that 1917 was not only the year of the Oc tober Revolution, but also the 1 year when President Wilson was converted to the great Masaryk's (plan for an independent Czecho slovakia. From such trifles you gather a not unimportant truth, that you may think the Soviet system as inhuman as you please, but that this mysterious system is still in habited by extremely human beings. (Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Portland Freshmen Placed on Probation Portland (U.R) More than four out of 10 freshmen students at Portland State College were put on probation because of low grades at the end of the fall quarter, officials said today. Dr. Howard Impecoven, regis trar, called the figure "excep tionally large." Some 603 of the 1378 fresh men were on the probationary list. Mr. Insurance -FRSD BRENNAN Phone 2-4940 A NAME OR A NUMBER? 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