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and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 14, 1947 (Friday)
Valentines received by a spin
ster school teacher almost a hun
dred years ago are on display
at Swem's Gift shop.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The. H.
Flewher edifice on 6th street, is
again surging upward. Rome
was not built in a day either.
20 YEARS AGO
Fab. 14. 1937 (Sunday)
Local Elks to present comic
opera, "The Beggar Prince" at
CMedford High school tonight.
Remodeling of Ethelwyn B.
Hoffman shop, lixth and Holly
sts. is completed.
30 YEAB6, AGO 0
Fab. 14. 1927 (Monday)
C. Y. Tengwald rrfckes report
on recent district conference of
Kiwanis ftutrs at meeting today.
Observer D. M. Little, of the
aerological weather station, says
strongest wind ever recorded at
station is recorded today when
winds reach 100.8 miles per
hour.
40 YEArVfe AGO
Fab. 14. 1917 ("Wednesday)
Receipts of Crater Forest re
serve for 1916 were greater than
any other national forest, ac
cording to Supervisor M. L.
Erickson.
Chris Gottleib and W. F.
Isaacs return from Salem after
lobbying in behalf of Rogue
River fish bill, closing Rogue to
seins and setnets.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior; sev
en or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Edison invented a tele
phone; true or false?
2. In Roman mythology did
the Bronze Age follow the Gold
Age or the Silver Age?
3. Bible: Which New Testa
ment Book begins: "Paul and
Silvanus, and Timotheus?"
4. Do grizzly bears climb
trees?
5. Is the railway car in which
the World War I Armistice was
signed in France?
6. Who preceded Theodore Ro
osevelt as President?
7. What masculine nickname
is also the name of an apparatus
for raising heavy bodies?
8. The author of "Les Miser
ables" was Dumas; true or Case?
9. "Personal" is an adjective.
Is "personnel" an adjective?
10. Wrote Du Bortis, 1605:
"Living from hand to mouth,
soon s d."
Answers: 1. True (1877). 2. Sil
Ter Age. 3. Thessalonians II,
4. No. 5. No. It was destroyed.
6. William McKinley. 7. Jack
8. False. Victor Hugo. ' 9. No,
Noun. 10. Satisfied.
OBLIGING JUDGE
Robinson, 111. iU.R) A sister
speaking out of turn got her
brother a $1,000 fine beside an
eight-month sentence on the
state penal farm. The brother
xL-as rhareed with driving a car
after his license had been re
voked. The offense carried a jail
sentence, a $1,000 fine or both.
After the judge imposed the jail
sentence, the sister spoke up
from the rear of the courtroom
with "go ahead and give him the
$1,0, fine." The judaje obliged.
A DIFFERENT ONE
Portland. Me. iU.R) Casey
Jones works for the Maine Cen
tral Railroad.
A. Tough Assignment
. Naturally the new Chairman of the National Re
publican committee, Mr. Alcom, is confident of con
gressional victory in 1958.
He would not hold his job long if he were not.
But after hearing him over "T.V.," and looking a bit
into his background we are quite sure, he holds many
reservations.
We refer particularly to the US senate race.
LJERE, for example, are 8 Republican senators who
''will be up for re-election next year to-wit:
Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin.
Wm. E. Jenner of Indiana.
Barry Goldwater of Arizona.
Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska.
John W. Bricker of Ohio.
Frank A. Barrett of Wyoming.
George W. Malone of Nevada.
Wm. Langer of North Dakota.
With one or two exceptions, here is an octet, as
strongly opposed to President Eisenhower's "New
Republicanism" and to every principle of progressive
and enlightened political doctrine as any student of
American statesmanship could find.
1MESSERS McCarthy, Jenner and Malone, particu
iV1 larly not only DON'T LIKE Ike, they have spoken
out against him, and all eight voted to cut off ALL
funds for the President's foreign aid progams.
They are indeed as a group far more bitterly and
and uncompromisingly opposed to the President and
his policies than are Democratic senators like Senators
Russell, Sparkman, Anderson, Green, Neuberger,
Kennedy and many others.
RUT business is business.
And to a national party chairman business is
PARTY loyalty.
So Chairman Alcorn will have to go all out for
this bunch of political impossibles, even if he has
to hold his nose and cross his fingers while he does it.
"II7E DON'T envy him the job.
" For if our impressions of the man have been
at all correct he is rather a superior type of politician,
also a sincere worshipper of both the President and
his "New Republicanism." This trio of McCarthy,
Jenner and Malone, therefore, must be a particularly
bitter pill to swallow. But he will swallow them, of
course, with or without a Connecticut Yankee
"chaser."
And so will the President for that matter. "Ike"
shook hands with Jenner in 1952, and endorsed Mc
Carthy in Milwaukee, even if the latter action did
mean desertion and repudiation of his former boss
and devoted leader, General George Marshall.
BUT that, of course, is politics. It's all in the game.
At least the brand of politics that in an election
year considers it compulsory to place victory above
everything else, including principle.
On the basis of principle on the basis of the ad
ministration's "New Republicanism" and what it
REALLY stands for, all these eight senators should
be beaten, and returned to private life without benefit
of gravy.
But we would not advise any members of the
False Friends club betting their shirts, on any such
beneficient and inspiring outcome really happening.
Our guess is, however, a majority of them will fall by
the wayside to the lasting benefit of their country,
if not themselves. R.W.R.
Foolish Waste of Time
With so many important things to do and so little
time in which to do them, we should think the State
Legislature would discontinue the practice of Memo
rializing the U.S. Congress, except where some issue
of supreme state and national importance is con
cerned. The topic of House Joint Memorial No. 5 cannot be
so classified. This measure endorses an amendment to
the constitution which would deprive the Congress of
its right to levy-income taxes above a certain amount
usually placed at $25,000.
The only exception could be in time of war, and
then a raising of the ban would be limited to a period
not exceeding one year.
WE OFTEN hear in the reactionary press about
the dangers of "crack-pot" legislation and the
horrors of "soaking the rich," but here is an example
of crack-pot legislation that could only "soak the
poor" and subsidize the rich.
We realize there is a national drive to bring some
thing like this about via constitutional amendment,
but in our judgment, it has no more chance of being
seriously considered by the congress of the United
States, or the people of the country, than the revival
of the Volstead Act or the re-enactment of a provision
to legalize human slavery.
It is simply unmitigated nonsense. It is a sort of
dream fulfillment stuff going back in imagination
to the "good old days."
We are living in the 20th centuiy not the 10th.
We are living in a highly competitive and turbulent
and expensive world, not in
dise.
True, income taxes, state and national, are high
and no one who has to pay them, LIKES them.
DUT it isn't a question of what one likes to do but
what someone HAS to do, if the USA is to remain
secure and solvent.
If the boys and girls in the Upper Brackets do
less than their share, then the girls and boys in the
Lower brackets must do MORE.
AndAvhat would be the net result of that prpcess?
Well a country as rich as this would probably
Thursday, February 14, 1957
a tax-free, war-free para
Today and
By Walter
PAINFUL DILEMMA
Both the President and Secre
tary Dulles were asked at their
press conference last week
whether this
gover n m e n t
would take
sanctions if Is
rael did not
withdraw un-
c o n ditionally
behind the
armistice
lines. The
President re
plied that if
Walter Lippmann
the U.N. voted for sanctions,
we are committed to the sup
port of the U.N." This reply
does not really answer the prac
tical question, which is whether
the United States will use its
own vote and its very consider
able influence to enable the
Arabs, the Afro-Asians and the
Soviet blocs to vote sanctions.
For as the voting blocs are
now aligned in the General As
sembly, the United States will
have the power to decide wheth
er or not sanctions are to be
voted. If the United States de
cides for sanctions, we shall
carry enough votes with us to
provide the necessary two-thirds
majority to vote sanctions. If
we decide against sanctions,
there will not be enough votes
to pass a resolution. It is, there
fore, misleading to talk about
our being "committed to the
support of the United Nations."
For how we cast our vote and
we exercise our influence in
the General Assembly will de
termine what action by the
U.N. we are committed to sup
port. The U.N. is not a tribunal
which hands down decisions that
we must then loyally support
We are ourselves a part of that
tribunal, and in what it decides
we have a deciding part. We do
not have the power to decide
affirmatively when the interests
of the Arab, Afro-Asian and Sov
iet blocs are at issue. We do
have the power of veto, and
by combining with the Arab
Afro-Asian and Soviet blocs we
have the power to cause the
General Assembly to act af
firmatively. We can prevent ac
tion or we 'can support their
action. That is where we are
in the General Assembly.
THE painful dilemma in which
wa nnw finrl nurspIvAB ari;ps
from this situation in the Gen
eral Assembly. The basic fact
is that Israel can be coerced if
we will vote to coerce her,
whereas Egypt cannot, as the
Assembly is now constituted, be
coerced at aU. Israel can be
coerced if we do not exercise
our veto and instead vote for
sanctions. But Egypt cannot be
coerced because the Arab, Afro
Asian and Soviet blocs also have
a veto, and what is more will
certainly use their veto.
We are in a delemma because
there have been two closely re
lated wrongs, two closely re
flected breaches of the. law of
the United Nations, and yet with
in the United Nations it is pos
sible to right only one, not both,
of these breaches of the law.
Israel is a law-breaker because
she has invaded the Sinai Pen
insula and the Gaza Strip. But
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The American communist
party has been holding its con
vention in New York. Dispatches
tell us the party faces a dilemma.
The dilemma's horns are:
1. Whether to go on taking
Moscow's interpretations of the
communist dectrine, or
2. To make its own interpre
tations. National Chairman William
Z. Foster favors strict adher
ence to the Kremlin line, but
John Gates, editor of the Com
munist Daily Worker (the Amer
ican communist party's news
paper) advocates what he calls
"national" communism.
THIS is the BIG issue:
Shall communism go on as
a monolithic structure, domin
ated by the Kremlin, or shall it
break up into KINDS of com
munists? Let's put it this way:
All commies are bad, but from
our standpoint the so-called "na
tionalist" commies . (meaning dif
ferent kinds of communists, each
of which wants to run its own
shabang) are the least odious.
There's always the chance that
different "kinds" of communists
will get to fighting with each
I CP
escape bankruptcy, but there would be a period of
strain and stress that would not only "curl your hair,"
but send the party responsible for such a financial
monstrosity to the showers for a generation, if not for
all time.
OOWEVER, as indicated, there is .no more chance
. of such an amendment to the constitution being
passed, than there is of General Nasser being named
"Cantor' of the Jerusalem synagogue.
Moreover as far as such joint Memorials to the
U.S. congress in general are concerned, they add up
to an empty gesture at best, and an unmitigated nui
sance at the worst,
The members of the House at Salem should be
able to find a better use for their spare time. R.W.R,
Tomorrow
Lippmann
Egypt is no less a law-breaker
because the armistice, she has
waged war against Israel by
blocking the Suez Canal and the
gulf of Aqaba and by organizing
guerrilla warfare across the Is
raeli frontier.
The problem which confronts
the United Nations and the Unit
ed States is how to get Israel
to withdraw, thereby ending her
war against Egypt, without put
ting Egypt in a position to re
sume her war against Israel.
The problem is now to prevent
both sides, not merely one side,
from waging war.
rpHE controlling fact in the
situation is, as I pointed out
above, that the General Assemb
ly will, as it is now aligned,
exert pressure on Israel but not
on Egypt. Nasser is, therefore,
in a position to refuse to give
any public assurances that he
will cease to violate the armistice
if the Israeli army withdraws.
As a result, those who have
been trying to solve the problem
have been trying by private di
plomacy to work out some kind
of arrangement under which
Nasser, while giving no public
promises, would let it be under
stood privately that he would
not in fact resume his war.
At this writing, it does not
look as if this sort of thing is
going to be worked out what
with Nasser, protected by the
U.N. and in a position to stand
pat, what with Israel, which is
a democracy, unable to stake
her security on private assur
ances of what the President,
Mr. Dulles and Mr. Hammar
skjold hope and believe they
can in the future induce Nasser
not to do.
Is there anything else that
can be done? As things stand
now, if Israel withdraws she
will have no assurance from
Nasser that he will not wage
war. Israel can get no assurances
from the U.N. The U.N. will not
be permitted to act. All that is
left is some kind of assurance
by the United States that it
will do something about it all
in the future.
a
THE easiest thing to do in the
present-day United Nations is
to prevent it from acting. The
obvious thing for us to do is to
put off a show-down of votes in
the1 General Assembly and thus
to buy time for more secret
diplomacy.
Nothing but harm could come
of putting to a vote the question
of whether sanctions should be
taken against Israel in order to
compel her to withdraw uncon
ditionally. If we fail to vote
such a resolution, most of the
hope of wooing the Arabs, which
is the essence of the Eisenhower
doctrine, will go up in smoke.
If, on the other hand, we join
the Arabs, the Afro-Asians and
the Soviets to impose sanctions,
the unfairness of the action will
have far-reaching, and it may
weU be irreparable, consequenc
es. The friends of U.N. in all the
blocs have a vital interest in
following the advice of the Sec
retary General, which is to lay
aside the question of sanctions.
Copyright New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
other instead of everybody gang
ing up to fight us.
OPEAKING of communists,
Russia comes up with its own
Middle East doctrine. The doc
trine calls for a Big Four (U.S.,
Russia, Britain and France)
declaration of hands off the Mid
dle East that is, let the Mid
East countries fight it out among
themselves with the rest of the
world staying out of it.
The Russian "doctrine" pro
poses that if there is to be any
economic aid it will be provided
by ALL the Big Four nations,
instead of any one of them.
ON the face of it, it sounds
good. But like all Russian
proposals it has a catch. The
catch is this:
The United States, Britain and
France must close down their
Middle Eastern military bases.
That would mean that we'd get
clear out and move back home,
thousands of miles away, and
leave the Russians JUST OVER
THE FENCE from the Middle
East, ready to jump in at a mo
ment's notice.
It's a typical Russian proposal.
IN closing:
A couple in Birmingham,
England, tired of having a neigh
bor park his car outside their
house, decided to teach him a
Ike-Saud Conference
Due for Testing Soon
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspodent
President Eisenhower's suc
cess in trying to sell" his
Middle Eastern policy to King
Saud of Saudi
Arabia is
about to under
go a test.
Saud is ex
pected to con
fer in Cairo on
Feb. 23 with
President
Abdel Nasser
of Egypt, King
H u s s e in of
Charles MeCano
Jordan and President Shukri el
KuwaUy of Syria.
President Eisenhower's new
"doctrine" aimed at combatting
Communist penetration of the
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Seeks Freeway Vote
To the Editor: If Mr. Jensen
of Rogue River would drive
around the valley in any direc
tion from Medford he would
find . that many very valuable
farms and orchards are being
sold for homes.
So why not a few more acres
for the Freeway?
It will not hurt him in any
way. And we do not want it to
go through Medford and Haw
thorne Park.
I think it should be brought
to the vote of the people.
Mrs. Nellie Gulliford,
135 Almond st.
Medford, Ore.
A Valentine from Library
To the Editor: Because Med
ford will observe Valentine's
Day on Thursday, the Medford
Public Library would like to
send a Valentine greeting and its
deepest gratitude to the follow
ing:
To Mayor John Snider, City
Manager Robert Duff, and the
members of the City Council
for their understanding support
of the growing place of the
library in the community.
To the taxpayers of Medford
and Jackson County whose fi
nancial support has furnished
the means for needed improve
ments.
To the more than 15,000 pa
trons of the library who, dur
ing the 1956-57 fiscal year, will
borrow almost 230,000 books
the highest number in the
library's history. .
To the Library"Board of Trust
ees who have acted as liaison be
tween the library and the peo
ple of Jackson County.
To the Mail-Tribune for its
generous allocation of space to
library news.
To KBOY, KMED and KYJC,
and KBES-TV for donation of
radio and television time.
To all who have offered con
structive criticism to help us
do a better job.
To all the library's patrons
and friends whose gracious com
pliments and goodwill have kept
our spirits high. .,
Helen Webster
Librarian -
Medford Public Library
What Price "Baby Doll?"
To the Editor: So much timo
effort, and money are spent on
cniiaren to Dnng them up to be
worthwhile citizens. And yei.
lesson. So. one dark nieht. thev
painted his car brown and white,
with the colors sketchily daubed
on.
But
The neiehbor turner! out to
be a police constable, and vester-
day the couple was hauled into
court and fined the Enclish
equivalent of $100.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, in
Hamlet's soliloquy, supplies
the moral:
It is better to "bear those ills
we have than to fly to others
that we know not of?"
"Well done is better than
well said!"
Franklin
DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Arab countries is certain to be
the No. 1 topic for discussion.
Before he left Washington
last Saturday, Saud expressed
approval of the doctrine. He
said he would explain its aims
to his fellow Arab leaders.
Egypt Is Suspicious
Egypt and Syria are suspicious
of the doctrine, which calls for
the use of American armed
forces if necessary to fight arm
ed Communist aggression and
also provide for a $400 million
aid program to lessen the danger
of Communist penetration and
subversion.
Both Egypt and Syria also
have adopted policies which
leave them wide open to Russian
penetration.
Jordan has been more or less
Letters submitted for publication must
it can be seriously damaged or
torn down completely by some
one's money-hunger or careless
ness.
I am a worker in a junior
group, sixth to eighth grades:
and was shocked to learn that
12 year old youngsters are al
lowed to see such a film as
"Baby Doll!"
If such films MUST be shown
(which I doubt), the least that
can be done is to keep our
children from them.
Some have parents who are
too busy or don't care, but these
children still need guidance,
none the less. This is everyone's
duty. Not just the churches.
schools, and youth groups, but
theater people, newstands own
ers, and anyone who expects to
be around when these children
are older and big enough to use
the things they have learned.
Impressions count, and we all
must watch to see only the right
ones are impressed on young
minds.
Maybe the local theater peo-
Lple feel that it isn't their concern
but in a very few years these
same kids may be the ones who
cause a riot in their theater, or
try to hold up their box office,
it a cnua can t drive a car
until 16, or vote until 21, don't
you think 12 is too young to be
shown the story of a wanton
baby doll?
Isn't the price a bit too high?
Miss Phyllis Ann- Floyd
Rt. 1, Box 427
Medford, Ore.
Stamp Legislation
To the Editor: Recently we
have introduced Senate Bill 29
to try, on behalf of Oregon con
sumers and merchants, to modi
fy some practices which have
grown up, as trading stamps
have spread in our state. The
changes we propose have al
ready been put into practice in
a similar law in the State of
Washington.
Our bill is a mild one, "and we
are disappointed and surprised
at the heavy lobby which one of
the stamp companies has put in
to action at Salem to defeat the
bill. We write this letter to tell
your readers what we have in
mind. . - -
At the present time a high
proportion of the stamps issued
are not redeemed. This adds to
the cost of merchandising, but
only the stamp company profits.
To make the stamps more attrac
tive to consumers we would re
quire that they may hereafter be
redeemed either in cash or mer
chandise. We would also permit
them to be redeemed at any
store which issues them, since
merchants and consumers alike
would benefit if they do not
have to be redeemed for limited
"prize" items- by mail or at a
central depot at some distant
city.
To prevent "nuisance" re
demptions of a few cents, the
minimum amount of stamps
which a merchant must redeem
would be one dollar's worth.
Stamps must also have their
Success
at Cairo
non-committal on the doctrine.
But King Hussein personally is
reported to approve it. ;
Of the other Arab countries.
Crown Prince Abdul niah of
Iraq and Foreign Minister Char
les Malik of Lebanon expressed
approval of the Eisenhower Doc
trine. The Cairo conference has
been limited to four Arab coun
tries partly because Saudi
Arabia, Egypt and Syria have
agreed to make up to Jordan the
S3 3 million-a-year subsidy which
it has been getting from Britain
under a treaty which has Just
been annulled at Jordan's de
mand.
Saud May Succeed
But Saud may be able to help
materially by expressing Ap
proval of the doctrine to his fel
low conferees, and urging them
to accept it. If they did, the
other Arab nations almost cer
tainly would.
The importance of the aid
angle of the Eisenhower plan
has not been emphasized as has
the military angle.
But Egypt and Syria, especial
ly, could use any part of $200
million. There is considerable
doubt whether Egypt, Saudi
Arabia and Syria tan pay Jor
dan its promised $33 million.
There seems good reason lor
hope that Saud, especially by
emDhasizine the American aia
program, can help to make the
Eisenhower Doctrine look good.
value in cents or mills printed
on their face, bince me usual
arrangement with the merchant
costs him about 3 per cent of
his gross to use the stamps, it if
vital to him to improve the cus
tomer relationship and bring the
maximum possible numbers of
his patrons back into his store.
We hope your readers will
agree that this is good business
for Oregon consumers and mer
chants alike. Since offering the
biU, we have received many
letters from those who think
stamps should be prohibited.
This is not our intention, and if
some practices are improved, we
believe the system may continue
in vogue for those who like it,
Senate Bill 29 is. of course.
strictly non-partisan, and its
sponsors are of opposite parties.
Monroe Sweetland
(State Sen., Clackamas Co.)
Sam Wilderman
(Rep., Multnomah Co.)
Salem, Ore.
More About Reel Foot
To the Editor: Commenting on
the letter of Bert Kissinger on
Old Reel Foot, killed by Pearl
Bean:
I met Pearl Bean in 1926 and
became well 'acquainted with
him; we opened up the old Bolen
Placer mine as partners. He also
had a mine two miles East of
Bolen Lake and I made a trip
with him to it in March, 1927.
At this time an old friend of
Bean's, Jess Barnett, was op
erating a shooter on a high chan
nel at the mouth of Grizzly
Gulch. When Pearl asked if he
was taking out any thing he
pointed to the end of the sluice
box and we climbed up for a
look at a quart fruit jar full of
nuggets as large as the end of
one's thumb, with a large nugget
lying oa top that would not go
in the jar.
We continued our trip up
Grizzly to the top, walking over
the tops of tall trees on the
frozen snow to his cabin on the
divide, just East of Bolen Lake,
where he showed me pictures of
old Reel Foot and several news
paper articles. Pearl said that
a reward of $1,400 had been
offered for the bear, of which
he received $400.
Bean was asked to take the
bear to Chicago or the Worlds
Fair, however, it was sent to San
Francisco where I had the
pleasure of seeing the last big
Gr'-'zly in the Ferrv Building.
Yes, if one met Old Reel Foot
in the woods he would look like
two tons instead of the 1800 that
Pearl said he weighed.
Elwood Hussey
Cave Junction, Ore.