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and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jen. 29. 1947 (Wednesday)
Representatives of 19 Med
ford churches meet with Dr.
Harry Munro today in First
Presbyterian church in prepa
ration for evangelism program.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: H. 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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