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Newspaper Page Texto .O o o o o O O TOUR MEDFORD (OREGOY) MedfordTribune "I very one In Southern Ores on Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advcrtuuig Manager GERALD LATHAM Businen Manager TRIC ALLEN JR ManaRinf Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telejrrapb Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OLIVE STARCHEFP Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON Circular on Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second clan matter at Medford Oregon under Act V arch 3, 1837 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance Per Copy It Sily and Sunday One year $15 0 tiv and Sunday Six month 8 00 Da and Sunday Thre mot 0MS Sunday Only One year By Carrier In Advance dfor Ashland Centra) Point Fgle Point Jacksonville. Cold Hift Phoenix. Shady Cov Rogue Rlvr. Talaat and on mow routes- Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 uauy ana sunaav one montn uu Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terma Cash In Advance OfftrUj piper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Presa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION AdrrtiainsOfteoresentative: H WKST-HOLIDAY COMPANY WC w Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco Los Angel ea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATION A I. EDITORIAt, ASSOCllAMON 9 . ) I NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. iO YE&RS AGO FSb. 11, 147 (Tuesday) Rogue River Orchards of Mdford files application with civilian production administra tion for permission to build $59, 000 addition to its plant. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The latest popular song, "Open the Door, Richard!" is now being exten O sively executed locally. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1937 (Thursday) Tax rolls for current taxes, amounting to $1,317,257.34, will be turned over by the assessor's office to the tax collection de parjjnent Saturday. ifiajor Improvements to build ing at northeast corner of Main st. nd Central ave. will start soon by U.S. National Bank of Portland, according to George Frey, Medford manager. 30 YEARS AGO 0 Mayor O. O. Alenderfer re turns today from Salem praising Jackson county delegation at the legislature. WilGam J. Warner, Medford postmaster, elected president of Federal Business association of soutnern uregon. 40YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1917 (Sunday) Short story by Edison Mar shall, of Medford, receives place among 190 best short stories written in United States in 1916. G. L. Schermerhorn and L. Niedermeyer organize a Farm ers committee to oppose a local irrigation district. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It superior: s a or eight U excellent; five er tlx If rood. 1. In 1809 there were 180 paper mfl in the U. S. Prior to thai year, were rags imported tof the manufacture of paper? 2. The supreme self-exisitent god of ie Hindus, Brahma, is usually represented as having foig- heads and how many arms? n O o o 3. Bible: "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands mC who? 4. In which country is Harbin? , Samuel L. Smith wrote the words for which U.S. nation al hvgi? 6. "God Save the Queen" and which U.S. hymn have the same musical score? 7. Is red alder a bard or soft wood tree?. 8. Is the Stone Mountain in Georgia ?r West Virginia? 9. Is the word "above" ever accigtable as a noun? 10 'JJwo heads are better (gan" -what? Answers: I. No. 2. Four. 3 Esaii. 4. China. 5. "My Coun tryTis of Thee." 6. My Coun ty 'Tis of Thee." 7. Hard- 8 Georgia. 9. Yes. in a business letter. 10ne. MAIL TRIBUNE Only The Beginning Roger Babson, writing on this page last Friday, is excited over the vast potential of the human brain. Well he may be, for it is believed by some psycholo gists that most of us use our brains to only 3 per cent of their capacity. Most of his message to the effect that increased attention in schools to the development of brainpower will pay off we can go along with. But with one of his passing references we must dis agree. He said : "I am convinced that these children (today) do not get the training that I had 50 years ago. Moreover, every em ployer will say that the product of our schools is not as good as it formerly was ..." . . lR. Babson, you've fallen for surface appearances, and haven't thought this through. Consider: Fifty years ago there were no compulsory atten dance laws. Only the wealthy or well-to-do could af ford to keep their youngsters in school. These favored youngsters had eveiy chance to succeed. But the vast majority of children could not, or did not, attend even high school. Yet it is the graduates, the "cream of the crop," to whom Mr. Babson refers. Nowadays, with few exceptions, every youngster attends high school the wealthy and the poor, the talented and the dull, the ambitious and the lazy. I JNDER these circumstances the AVERAGE high school student of today may not stack up with the AVERAGE student of 50 years ago. But if Mr. Babson were to make a more valid comparison that of the best students of today against the best students of his youth he'd arrive at far different conclusions. And we are sure he would find that the best stu dents of today are far better prepared to face up to the vicissitudes of life than the best students of 50 years ago. And what's more,- today's top students come from every segment of society. Their worth is measured in what they can do not in who their ancestors were or how much money their father has. If, as has been claimed, "Johnny can't read," this does not apply to a generation of students, but to part of them. The best can read, do read,,and understand what they read. NO, Mr. Babson, don't fall The top students of today can out-spell, out-read and out-think the top students of your generation. And, what's more, there are more of them, both per centagewise and in total numbers. The schools of today, and their products, are part of a social and educational revolution which is still in mid-stride. They are, perhaps, the -'truest social ex ponents of our democratic tradition. They have open ed their doors to all, and do their best, under amazing handicaps, to permit each student to rise to his own full potential, no matter what his interests or talents may be. It is too easy to look at the defeats and the failures. What is too often obscured is the high degree of suc cess they have attained in bringing the level of educa tion in America to the highest point ever attained. And this, we believe, is only the beginning. E.A. Debunking The Debunkers "Old wives' tales," we were told long ago, are the bunk. As the "age of science" burst upon an unsuspect ing populace about 100 years ago, the scientific fra ternity set out to "debunk" a host of tales, legends, customs and habits which had not had the aura of "scientific investigation" to support them. Now that the scientific age is a bit more mature, however, it is being found that more and more of these folkways really had something to them. QNCE upon a time, when a man suffered from cer- tain types of chest pains, the old wives cooked up a batch of foxglove for him. Silly? Well, foxglove is a source of digitalis, which the medical fraternity now use in many heart cases. Other herbs and nostrums of old, on analysis, have proven to have real healing powers. We also remember being told that the adage, "An elephant never forgets," was silly and not true. Well, it IS tine or almost, anyway. . A GROUP of scientists working at a zoo in Ger- many tested a young Indian elephant over a pe riod of time, and found that her general intelligence level was much higher than that of most animals. They taught her to recognize a whole series of different symbols printed on cards, and to discrimi nate among them. After a full year had passed, the symbols were presented to her again 26 of them. In a total of 520 trials, she scored between 73 and 100 per cent right in remembering each of them. The scientists wonder if a human being could do as well. MOT only that, they found elephants can do quite a bit of thinking on their own. They'll use a branch to switch away flies, and will pick up a stick to scratch themselves in places they can't reach with their trunks. And there are well documented stories of ele phants stuffing mud into the bells hung on their necks to muffle the sound before they go out at night to steal bananas. So much for the debunking of old wives' tales. Maybe spunkwater at midnight will cure warts after all. E.A. Monday, February 11. 1957 for the easy catch-words Today and By Walter PEACE MAKING The United States is with good reason opposing the move ment to have the United Nations intervene 1 n the Algerian disorders. The good reason, which is, I hasten to say, not the avow ed official rea son, is that the situation in the General Assembly i s Walter Lippmann such that public peace making by means of open resolutions is for all practical purposes im possible. The alignment of the blocs in the Assembly does not now permit the United Nations to exert an even-handed pres sure where there is an issue be twen West and East. If, therefore, the General As sembly were to take over the Algerian problem, the net ef fect would almost certainly be to encourage the Algerian Arabs to be irreconcilable and to re fuse those compromises which will be necessary if there is to be a peaceful settlement. Far from promoting peace, the United Nations would almost certainly find itself promoting disorder. ... IN my recent article, I cited the voting strength of the various blocs among whom com binations must be made to pro duce the two - thirds majority which is needed for an import ant resolution. The basic situa tion may be summarized in this fashion: that it takes 52 votes to pass a resolution, that it takes 27 votes to veto a resolution, and that while neither the East erners nor the Westerners com mand a majority, each has a veto. Thus when there is a major issue, be it over Hungary, Suez, Gaza, Aqaba, Kashmir or, for that matter Algeria, the two vetoes are enough to stop the General Assembly from acting at all. This deadlock can be broken only if certain of the great powers on the Western side the United States, on the Eastern side the Soviet Union or India, switch sides. THIS is what happened in the Egyptian affair when the United States voted on the same side as did the Soviet Union and India. There was no stalemate and the U.N. took effective ac tion to compel the withdrawal of Britain, France and Israel from Egypt. But there has been no corresponding switching of sides, as there needed to be, to 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 riRht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Put It To A Vote To the Editor: To the residents of Medford who do not want our little city cut in two by the freeway a remedy may be to put it to a vote of the people. Call your city couniclman and request such a procedure. Save our park and our homes too. Mrs. Mary Morgan 618 East Ninth st. ' Medford, Ore. Praise From USO To the Editor: As president of the United Medford Crusade, it was my pleasure recently to receive a letter from Admiral John L. Hall, U.S. Navy, Ret., Campaign Chairman of the United Service Organizations. As this letter from Admiral Han was written primarily to thank the contributors of this community to the USO, I would like to quote from it is follows: "Your community was one of those which gave thought to the nearly three million young peo ple serving their country by in cluding the USO in your United Community Campaign last fall. "USO is deeply grateful for your part in making it possible for us to take a measure of home to service men and women around the world. "Many of these young men are stationed overseas where world tensions are acute, and where the American service-man finds little friendliness in his foreign community. For them the secure familiarity of the USO is more than desirable it is essential. "I tender my deep apprecia tion to all the conscientious citizens of your community who took part in the campaign. Such demonstrations of good will to wards others renew our faith in the American way of life." The United Medford Crusade included, for the USO, $2,018 in its 1956-57 Campaign and, thanks to the generosity of the Medford people, this amount will be paid in full. I feel sure that our United Medford Crusade contributors will be glad to know that their gifts are contributing to the wel fare of the more than one thou sand young people in the armed forces from Jackson county. William H. Prentice President United Medford Crusade Tomorrow Lippmann apply equal pressure to Egypt. There has, of course, been no equal pressure about Hungary and none about Kashmir. If Algeria were taken up by the U.N., the whole pressure would be on France, and none on the Arab Nationalists. The fact of the matter is that the veto is always applied one way and it is not always ap plied the other way. For that reason the General Assembly is proving itself to be incapable of carrying out the prime pur pose of the United Nations, which is to promote the peace able settlement of conflicts. ... i THIS situation is so bad, so provocative of disorder and so dangerous to the peace that it would be intolerable were nothing being done about it. Something has to be done about it, and what is being done is to try to work out in private under standings what could never be avowed or put to a vote in the General Assembly. This is il lustrated by the Israeli-Egyptian deadlock over whether Israel shall or shall not right the wrongs she has committed with out assurances that Egypt will right the wrongs that she has committed. The pressure on Israel to with draw without any public assur ances would make no sense, would indeed be grossly unjust were it not accompanied by pri vate assurances that Egypt will not in fact again blockade the Gulf of Aqaba and will not again use Gaza as a base for guerrilla war. If there were no good reason to believe that Egypt will in fact concede what she will not in principle con cede, the President, Mr. Dulles, and Mr. Hammarskjold would in morals and in equity be in no position to apply pressure to Israel. ... IT IS sometimes said that the action of the U.N. in Egypt is in fact directed to the restora tion of the status quo ante, and that that was so bad that it must not be restored. That is not, as I understand it, a correct descrip tion of what is going on in New York. What the Secretary General is trying to do is to restore not the status quo ante in fact. For both sides violated the armistice end Matter of Fact SOVIET BOOMTOWN In deep snow, with the glory of the city's broad sweep of the Volga frozen and snowcovered into semi-invisibility, Kui byshev is sing ularly lacking in outward charm. The people hurrying pur p o s e fully through the streets are re- Joseph Aisop duced to mere dark bundles by their waddings against the cold. The new build dings on the outskirts are stol idly utilitarian. The old build ings at the center display an occasional fantasy, but all are marred by cracking plaster and peeling paint. - The goods in the shops are mostly shoddy. The theater and the opera, the movie houses, the two rather jolly but expensive restaurants, the bleak, cheap "dining halls" and above all the warrens that pass for human living space are- uniformly over crowded to the bursting point. Yet this almost totally grace less city is still an absorbing experience mainly because it is a roaring boomtown, and boomtowns, with their vitality and dynamism, are always ex citing in one way or another. OTOE .statistics tell the story. - When Kuibyshev was still Samara and young Lenin hung out his lawyer's shingle here, this was an easy-going little mercantile center with a pop ulation of 130,000. Today, Kui byshev is a big industrial city of 760,000; and the Kuibyshev booms continues unabated. The first part of the secret of Kuibyshev's boom is of course the Soviet government's stern enforcement of an unchallenge able first priority, an absolute first call on all resources for the expansion of this country's industrial base. Yet I think, perhaps too bold ly, that I have found two oth er important parts of the secret here. One of these I began to dis cover when I visited a "techni cian." The boys and girls look ed bright and alert, but their school had none of the glossy finish and little of the elabor ate equipment that you would find in a technical high school in a big American city. Only the most brilliant 5 per cent were expected to go on to col lege. The friendly, sensible principal, Efim Yepifanov, made no bones about it: "The state needs at least three qualified technicians for every graduate engineer," he said. "And the chief job of every "technicum" is to train skilled workers technicians." H E was training new recruits from the construction in United Press Correspondents Predict Headlines of Future United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news thai will make the headlines. Heat's On The administration is turning the heat on plans to give eco nomic aid to independent Com munist Poland. The reason: To offset the collapse of arrange ments for a visit by Yugoslav President Tito. Polish-American talks start in Washington this week. The administration wants to show countries of Commun ist East Europe that they can get American aid if they show some independence of Moscow domination. Tito's visit, stopped by domestic opposition, was in tended to emphasize that. Much Smoke; No Fire Look for the national furor over oil price increases to sim mer down slowly and finally peter out. Even if indictments are returned charging the big international companies with price-fixing collusion, there will be long delays in any trials. For example, a criminal anti-trust action was filed against five com panies, charging conspiracy to control prices, under the Tru man administration. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. substituted civil for criminal charges. But the suit is still hanging while oil company lawyers file thou sands of documents they say are pertinent to it. he does not wish to restore the violations. What he is trying to restore is the status quo ante in law that is to say the rules of the armistice. A new agreement to observe the old armistice would, if it were respected, solve all the im nnrlanl nnints nnw at. issue be tween Egypt and Israel. The old agreement has the peculiar merit that every party to the rnnflift hac alrpartv sienprl it. The question is whether this o Vi i f. 1 is fan acraiYl hp nut ATI the road. The answer to that question is that this can con rpivnhlv Via Hnnp eiven a su preme exercise of private dip lomacy, not only on the part of the heavily laden" Mr. Ham marskjold, but also by the Presi dent, and not only in Cairo and Jerusalem and New York but also, it may be m Moscow. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. By Joseph Alsop dustry, the ferrous metallurgi cal industries and half a dozen others. Kuibyshev has a consid erable number of other muni cipal technicums. In addition, Kuibyshev Napht, the great trust that is developing the Kui byshev oil fields for the Pe troleum Ministry, has its own technicum plus an institute of petroleum engineering. The big Kuibyshev Ball Bearing plant also has a technicum, and so do most other larger factories. I even learned of the existence of a banking technicum. Wondering about the city and asking questions about people's schooling, one got an amazing picture of a highly specialized school system providing an ex panding industry with a vast, continuous . flow of specially, very economically trained skilled workers. As for the other part of Kui byshev's secret which I think I discovered, it was intended to be implied in the portrait at tempted by an earlier article of the head of the big Kuibyshev Ball Bearing plant, Aleksandr Nikolaievich Vasiliev. An even bigger payroll meet er was the dark, sardonic, tough director of Kuibyshev Napht, Viktor Ivanovich Muravlenko, whose great oil fields, with their 15,000 workers and 1,000 oil geologists and engineers, will soon be out-producing Baku. Be sides Muravlenko, there was the slender, precise, shrewd head of the Kuibyshev branch of the State Bank, Vasily Romanovich Volubuyev, who provides the city's industries and trading establishments with almost cap talistic banking and credit fa cilities. And besides Volubuyev, there was the Chairman of the City Soviet (or Mayor), the solid, commonsensible Vladimir Ivano vich Semenov who has been pro moted from chief power station engineer and talked so knowl edgeably about his desperately urgent municipal problems of housing, water supply, sewage disposal, and the like. I THINK anyone who talked for hours with these men who make Kuibyshev's wheels go round, as I did, would have agreed that they all appeared im pressively competent and self confident. And well they might be, having come up the hard way to the highest posts in their city. It was decidedly striking this Kuibyshev boomtown combina tion of a growing army of skilled workers and a top echelon of highly qualified managers. But I wpndered whether this interest ing human combination would not eventuaUy demand some modification of the Soviet order of priorities, that would make Kuibyshev outwardly pleasant as well as inwardly dynamic. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Blockbuster Western diplomats expect the Russians to drop a blockbuster proposal at the meeting of the five-nation disarmament subcom mittee in London next month. The Soviet government has al ready tipped its hand by asking that the foreign ministers of the five countries United States, Canada, Britain, France and Russia attend the meeting in person.i That would set the stage for a big Russian propaganda proposal. Fight Tempers have already flared in the House of Representatives sub-committee studying Presi dent Eisenhower's $1.3 billion four-year school construction bill. But the real battle will come on the floor of the House. The school segregation issue will make headlines then. Some Re publicans will offer an anti-segregation "rider," providing that Money Troubles Said Haunting Eisenhower At First of By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) The sec ond Eisenhower administration is three weeks old today and in more trouble than might have been fore seen when the President agreed about a year ago to run again. No. 1 trou ble is Mr. Eis enhower's fail ure to hold the -yl. C. Wilson line of government spending. The administrations 1958 fiscal year spending program is for a peacetime record breaker near ly $72 biUion. From trouble No. 1 flows trou ble No. 2: The increasing possi bility of disastrous money infla tion in the United States. No. 2 leads directly, although not instantly, to trouble No which could be a block buster, No. 3 is the certainty that a ma jor inflationary spiral would be followed by disastrous depres sion. FDR Ouispent Hoover Fear of an Eisenhower depres sion probably haunts the Presi dent. There was a so-called Hoover depression way back there before the Roosevelt era. The citizens still are talking about it and sometimes voting against it. Mr. Eisenhower could but probably will not get some comfort from the fact tnat presi dents before him have talked big about cutting government spending without making it stick. An almost forgotten big issue of Franklin D. Roosevelt s first campaign for president was his ridicule of Hoover adminis- New Entrance Tests Alter College Record San Francisco 4J.R) Almost nobody is being flunked out by the University of California, San Francisco, a school official says. Before 1948 about one-third of every entering class failed to graduate. Since then the figure has ranged between zero and eight per cent. The change has resulted from a new entrance examination, university spokesmen said. Would-be dentists, for example, are oivpn siy-hour tests for their finger dexterity to determine if they are capable of drilling cavi ties without accidentally drilling the patient's tongue. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 no funds shall go to segregated schools. The outcome may hinge on how much pressure President Eisenhower puts on the Republi cans to kill the rider. A similar rider, tacked onto the bill last year, helped to defeat it. H-Bomb Tests It's a pretty safe bet that the United States will resume H bomb tests in the Pacific, but probably not until next year. It looked for a while as if reports about the danger of strontium 90 fall-out would interfere with future tests. But the latest scien tific study has confirmed find ings that fall-out is unlikely to be dangerous unless the test rate is multiplied thousands of times. President Eisenhower said in his budget message that the United States would continue efforts to cut down fall-out from H-bombs during the fiscal yesjr ending June 30, 1958. That means more tests. New Term tration spending and FD' promise to cut government cosjej by 25 per cent. That was in the 1932 presiden tial campaign and before FDR had heard about the John May- nard Keynes theory that big time deficit spending would haul a nation out of depression. Mr. Roosevelt adopted thp O Keynes theory, and the recorW will show that he outspent the Hoover administration many times over any way you figure it. - O Eisenhower Inherited Boom Keynes theory did not work for FDR, but he stuck with it until the World War II boom lifted the United States out of depression toward present busi ness levels. Mr. Eisenhower inherited the boom-time employment and busi ness from the Truman adminis tration. He was distrustful of their soundness, however, dur ing his 1952 presidential cam paign. Mr. Eisenhower ended that presidential campaign with a list of 10 pledges to the people of the United States. One of them was to throw "the full resources of our new administration into the battle against inflation." The effective method, he already had indicated, would be by controls over money and credit. A paradox is something which seems opposed to common sense but which may yet be true in fact. So, perhaps it is a paradox that in the field of national eco nomics, Mr. Eisenhower is a most as troubled in the midst of his boom as FDR was in the midst of unemployment and de pression and almost as power less, maybe, to cope with the problems involved. The Great Lover Geo. N. Taylor God the Eternal One willed all things and by Christ, He made them. them. All things were made by Christ 25? John 1:1-3 BIBLE. So came our earth, the sun, moon, and ev ery other uni verse seen out beyond the range of the unaided human eye. When Christ, as our Saviour had died for our sins. 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