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I o 0 rOtrn MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Everyone lo Southern Oregoo Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-23 North fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverUaina Manager CERAU3 LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALXEN JR. Manacinc Editor EARL H ADAMS. Citj Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OUVE STARCKER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON, Clrculaoon Mr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond claaa matter at Uediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year 11500 Daily and bunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4-25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Career In Advance Medford AshlMftd Centra Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rorue River. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year 118 00 Daily and Sunday One month 10 Carrier and Dealeri 10c per copy All Terma Cash In Advance Offli-lal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackton County United Press Full Leased Wire O MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY DC Offices in New York Chicago, de trnlt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOR I At. ASSOCllATlN gy-niiiMia H in NEWSr-APEK PUBllSHEtS ASSOCIATION Fliglfl o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filea of The Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fab. 18. 1947 (Tuesday) Rogue Valley and Sacred Heart hospitals announced a new financial policy, requiring a week's payment in advance" on hospital bills wll be started in March. . O From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The bright spring sunshine caused the farm ers to rejoice and the speed idiots to go faster. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 18. 1937 (Thursday) Formal spring opening of Medford stores announced for M4th 3. Jackson County Chember of Commerce gets assurance that the snow-blocked highway be tween Union Creek and the west entrance to Crater Lake Nation al park will be open Monday. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 18. 1927 (Friday) Construction on Medford's new city hall, to be used as a temporary courthouse, to start at Central ave. and Fifth st. About .62 inches of rain falls during last night's storm, to bring total for month to 1.30 inches. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 18. 1917 (Sunday) President Wilson announces steps to ease foreign situation where German submarines have blockaded ports. From Local and Personal col umn: Al Clemens of Eagle Point is in Medford on business pur poses. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ts superior; sev en or eight la excellent; flvs er six Is good. ' 1. Was the first stereotyping in the U. S. done before 1812? 2. The pen name of Charles F. Browne, American humorist, is A s W d? 3. BIBLE: Was Og the King of Bashan or Heskbon? 4. Is a "Rocky Mountain ca nary" a feline? 5. Will the Treasury redeem currency partially destroyed? 6. Who wrote the words and music to "God Bless America?" 7. Is allmouth the name of a fish, evergreen shrub, or an in se? 8. In music, what is the term for a melody added as accom paniment? 9. Did Gen. MacArthur use more than one pen in signing the Japanese surrender document? 10. "Time and" what "wait for no man?" Answers: 1. No. 1813 in New York. 2. Ariemus Ward. 3. Ba shan. 4. No. Donkey. 5. Yet. 6. Irving Berlin. 7. Fish. 8. Coun terpoint. 9. Yes., 10. "Tide." $100,000 Damage In Vancouver Fire Vancouver, Wash. : U.R) Damage was estimated at $100, 000 today from a general alarm fire which burned for five hours before being brought under con trol yesterday. Flames destroyed the contents of the Vancouver Furniture Ex change. Soke and heat damage spread through an entire block of buildings here. Fire Marshal James Brown said he had asked the state fire (g) marshal l investigate cause of .-.the blaze. All available firefighters were tilled out to battle the blaze. MAIL TRIBUNE . Lincoln Never Said It We are indebted to the Corvallis Gazette-Times for pointing out some of the which through the years have been so popular at Lii coin Day banquets. Here are some of them, quote: 1 "You cannot .help the poor by destroying the rich." 2 "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong." 3 "You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer." 4 "You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money." 5 "You cannot really help men by having the govern ment tax them to do for them what they can and should do for themselves." Naturally the Gazette and congenitally Republican, regrets that the revered founder of the "'Grand Old Party" did not have the foresight to anticipate Roosevelt's New Deal and de-. liver himself of such soundly conservative sentiments. In fact they represent to the G.-T. what it regards as "five of the fundamentals on which the party should base its economic platform." DUT presumably after doing a bit of research the Corvallis paper felt compelled to admit that these "terse precepts" were originated not by Lincoln but by a Rev. William Boetcher in the presidential cam paign of 1916, and later were officially credited to Abraham Lincoln by the Republican National Com mittee. However the matter was appealed to the Libra ry of Congress which found no evidence whatever to justify any such claim and it is fair to assume that if this highly' efficient research organization could find no such evidence, none exists. THE Gazette Times was very disappointed. But why cYi "Mil A if Virt -W -" r V fiVl O 1 a-i-P Vt f T 1T1 -- TOTT ( 11 JlC CAKb JIL UWliaU Ui U1C XJXllJill saj orators. For these apocrypha, as far as Abraham Lincoln is concerned can still be used by the Republican Na tional Committee and by the G.O.P. convention as far as that is concerned in its platform, with or without giving the proper credit to the Rev. William Boetcher. In fact the Mail Tribune can find nothing particu larly to disagree with in these five political tenets. e POR example, who, in politics or out, thinks the poor r can be helped by DESTROYING the rich? Who WANTS to destroy the rich anyway? According to reliable statistics even though "Mod ern Republicanism" has taken over the basic princi ples of the "New Deal" there are more millionaires and multi-millionaires in the present G.O.P. adminis tration and throughout the country not even includ ing Texas today than ever before in the country's history. We have never heard any Americans outside of the dwindling Communist party express any wish to destroy them and the "Commies" want to destroy everything. TO SLIGHTLY paraphrase Governor Averell Harri man of New York himself a multi-millionaire we would say: "The rich are here, they have their place only they ' should be kept IN it." That is good sense. The boys and the girls in the "Upper Brackets" DO have their place, and an impor tant one, but that doesn't mean they should run the country. Neither does it means that what is best for General Motors is NECESSARILY best FOR the country. The country of course should be run by the peo ple ALL the people via majority rule and the se cret ballot regardless of their economic status, rich, poor or in between. N FACT the only declaration in this program, the soundness of which we would question is No. 4 namely, that: - "You- cannot establish sound security on borrowed money." That is ridiculous. You CAN do it, and hundreds of thousands of peo ple in this country and throughout the capitalistic world have done and are doing it. The United States government would go out of business tomorrow if it didn't do it. Of course the money borrowed must be paid back and with interest, but we doubt if there is a big busi ness in the country that did not get its start and estab lish its security by borrowing on its credit. That is what banks are for. ' THE final item: "You can't really help men by having the government tax them to do for them what they can and should do for themselves." ' But this is just another truism and as an issue an absurdity. There is no influential group in the country re gardless of party, that would favor giving financial aid to ny citizen or citizens able to earn money and support themselves. This is not to claim there are not abuses in the sys tem of the "welfare state." There are abuses in any system, just as there are wastes in any system. But anyone who knows anything about welfare and its administration on the local, state or national level in this country, knows also that those who can make the grade without outside aid, have an extremely rough time getting it. The trouble with the Rev. William Boetcher and his follbwers, we believe, is failing to understand and profit by the important distinction made by Chief Jus tice Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court when he drew a sharp line between "creeping socialism" and CON STRUCTIVE and needed social PROGRESS. R.W.R. - Monday, February IS, 19S7 misquotations of Lincoln, - Times seriously, devoutly United Press Correspondents Predict Headlines of Future United Press correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Summit West European diplomats look for Russia to bid for a Big Four summit conference after Presi dent Eisenhower meets the Brit ish and French prime ministers late this month. That may be one reason why Andrei A. Gro myko was made foreign minis ter to succeed Dmitri T. Shepi lov. Premier Nikolai A. Bul ganin and Communist chieftain Nikita S. Khrushchev would be the chief delegates. But they would need a trained diplomat like Gromyko to steer their course. Shepilov is a propaganda expert, not a diplomat. Missile Move Britain's first guided-missile regiment is being quietly form ed at Crookham, Southwest Lon don. It will be equipped with the American-made "corporal" mis sile. The new unit will be call Sit-Down Strike Was Used 20 Years Ago in General Motors Firm By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Twenty years have slipped by since the left wing of organized labor im ported the sit- down strike technique from France and stopped great assem bly lines of General Motors. - .Like Gettys burg, Stalin- Lyle C. WUson grad or Mi(J. day, the decisive battle of the CIO to organize General Motors generally is conceded to have taken place in Flint, Mich, in December-January-February . of 1936-37. On Feb. 11, 1937, GM signed the agreement which ended a 44-day Flint sit-down. From that agreement developed the United Automobile Workers of Amer ica. (UAW) organization in GM. Sen. Pat McNarmara (D-Mich.) in the Senate a few days ago said: Mr. President, 20 years .ago this month, there took place in Flint, Mich., events that mark ed the launching of a new bill of rights for the industrial worker. "From these strikes came rec ognition of the UAW by Gen eral Motors Corporation; and from that recognition was born true collective bargaining, a new standard of living and social justice for the workers in the auto industry." No Quarrel From Reds None is likely to quarrel with McNamara's estimate of that sit down in the Flint Fisher Body works, the Communist Party of the United States least of nil. The Communists, in their na tional publication, The Worker, commemorated the Flint sit down Sunday in a nostalgic ac- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words He Had Everything To the Editor: All of us are interested in taxes. They are a national disgrace. More and more taxes, more and more pro grams, more and more social benefits. Some needed, some def initely not needed. I have been reading with in terest the big bonds, big plans, big needs and big building pro gram for -our school systems, in our own county and all over the country. I can't help wondering how much of it is really needed. I definitely do not like any more federal money spent on our schools because where federal money goes there also goes fed eral power and we have lost too much local control in everything already. As I read these articles of the school needs I am remind ed of an article I have in my scrapbook which gives a lot of food for thought. It reads as fol lows: A Boy's Handicap. The litUe boy wrote that he had no chance like Lincoln, for Lincoln had so much more than he and he enumerated: "It's no wonder. Look what he had to make him great: He had that log cabin. He had that pine knot, He had those rails to split. He had that tall plug hat, He had all those stories. He had that Douglas debate. He had that Civil War to win, He had that Gettysburg speech, He had everything To make a man great, And look what I got Not one of those things." , Ella Powell, Box 233 - Central Point, Ore. ed . "47th Guided Missile Regi ment Field Royal Artillery." It will number slightly more than 500 men. Some of its ground-to- ground weapons already have been delivered. Certainty . Washington says the House of Representatives will overwhelm ingly approve this week Presi dent Eisenhower's request to keep present tax rates on busi ness and consumers for another year. Without congressional ac tion, taxes of corporation in come, liquor, cigarettes, automo biles, etc., would lapse April 1. Federal revenue would drop nearly $3 billion a year. "We've got to vote for it," a lawmaker said. How could we explain to voters why we cut liquor taxes and didn't cut individual income taxes?" Sanctions i . The administration is trying nearly frantically to ayoid a showdown on "sanctions" penalties against Israel for its refusal to quit Egypt's Gaza count of events in the first year of the second Roosevelt admini stration when organizing labor had been heavily infiltrated and in some instances was being led by notable members of the Communist Party. Wyndham Mortimer, vice president of the struggling UAW, was a Communist closely associated with Bob Travis, UAW leader in Toledo, Ohio, The Worker recalled in discuss ing the Flint sit-down. "Who were the people in the Flint strike," the paper con-J tmued, with initiative and leadership? They were mainly an active core that Moritmer and Travis had built up. But it was people with a Socialist con sciousness and association with the Communist Party and the then-leftist Socialist Party of Michigan who stood 'out in key positions. , Reuther Brothers Mentioned "While the major leaders at Fisher (a' GM plant) were Com munists, the group that led the sit-down at the Chevrolet plant were mainly Socialists. Later, the three Reuther brothers, then Socialists, came to Flint to join Mortimer and the other CommU' nists in the leadership. Walter P. Reuther now is No. 2 man in the merged AFL-CIO." - The sit-down strike was a de vice by which employees quit work but remained in the plants days and night, resisting evic tion. It was a deadly effective strike weapon, especially if the courts and the executive, as in Michigan, "rejected company pleas that their properties were being occupied illegally. Weight Reduction Class Is Planned . Plans for weight reduction classes in Southern Oregon have been announced by the Oregon Heart association. It is expected that three or four classes in Medford and one in Ashland will be formed. Par ticipants may be either male or female, more than 18-years-old with an overweight problem, ac cording to association officials. All participants must be referred by their physician. Last year a similar program was held in southern Oregon. More than 60 members lost more than 700 ppunds, and many of the group continued to meet after formal classes were termi nated, officials said. The classes are sponsored by the American and Oregon Heart associations due to the fact there has been an increase in the mor tality rates of '.heart disease in people who are overweight, it was reported. " There is no charge for the classes. Neuberger Point To Hells Canyon 'Hoax' Washington (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said today that Secretary of Interior Fred A. Seaton has exposed in advertently a "gigantic hoax" in the administration's handling of Hells Canyon. ' The administration originally authorized the Idaho Power Co. to build three small dams to de velop power along the Snake river. Seaton recently said fur ther study should be made of a proposed high storage dam at Pleasant Valley which, if built, would flood, out one of the three Idaho Power Co. sites. "Seaton's action," Neuberger said, "is clear cut evidence that at least one of the- three Idaho Power dams is not the best pos sible development." PIANIST DIES Los Angeles U.R) Josef Hof mann, 81, celebrated pianist and prolific composer, died Saturday in a sanitarium of a heart ail Strip and Aqaba coast. It's not solely because, it's a hot rjotato politically. Officials remember how the failure of - sanctions against Italy for its attack on Ethiopia helped doom the old League of Nations. Doctrine Look for the Eisenhower Doc trine resolution to pass the Sen ate by a bigger margin than had appeared possible. The reason: iisenno er s decision to go along with the Democratic word ing of the measure instead of his own. The altered wording will not weaken the warning to Russia that the United States will fight if necessary to halt Communist advances in the Mid- die East. The resolution should pass next week, after some hot debate. Help For Gromyko . West German business men are pressing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer hard to negotiate a trade treaty with Russia, Ade nauer has refused to enter one. He wants Germany unified first. But he may be induced to agree to some sort of informal trade "agreement" instead of a formal pact. Safer Safeties Automotive experts are angry over published reports denounc ing safety belts as worthless in most accidents. Experts say the reports are based on flimsy evi dence and loaded statistics. But they do predict that manufac turers may be required to make belts conform to rigid standards. Some complaints about present belts have been due to faulty, cheap construction. Sports Outlook If plans for a new professional football league materialize, look for the 12-member National Pro fessional Football League to ex pand to several new cities in time for the 1958 season. The league voted last month against expanding prior to 1958. But that action probably would be annulled if plans for a new 18- city league went through. Buf falo, Miami, Minneapolis Louisville, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Denver and Seattle all hope to get franchises in one league or another eventually. But they'd rather get into an already established one. In the Day's HeWs By FRANK JENKINS Let's-spend-more money note: U.S. Secret Service Chief Baughman" says . in Washington he's in favor of getting a more private home for the President of the United States. - He tells a house appropria tions committee that as it is now the President can't roam through the White House or stroll oh the lawns during public visiting hours. (If he tries to get a little time to collect his thoughts by strolling around the place and fussing with a flower here pr straightening a picture on the wall there, he'll trip over a bug eyed delegation from Podunk.) Baughman adds that "security would be tighter" 'if the public were excluded from the Presi dent's residence. TRUE enough maybe. But- When the White House life gets too rugged the President can go golfing or quail shooting in Georgia. And on the golf links or in the quail fields he probably gets more time to straighten out his thinking than he'd get in a fancy multi-million dollar new residence in Washington. And . It costs the taxpayers less. HERE in Oregon we've battled for years over whether we should have or shouldn't have a governor's mansion. So far, we've got along with out it. I can't help thinking we'll be better off if we KEEP ON do ing without it. SOONER or later, everybody gets the idea that he ought to have a nice summer home at the beach or in the mountains. So he goes out on the limb and gets himself one. Result: He soon discovers that for the money he has invested in- his fancy summer home he could spend his vacations at the best , motels and come out ahead on the deaf. SPEEDING up the mails note: Postmaster General Sum- merfield thinks push-button mail service is just around the corner. In his annual report to Presi dent Eisenhower, he says the post office will be using auto matic sorting and cancellation machines by next year. UMMMM! ' ; D'ya reckon these fancy machines will enable Mr. Sum merfield's outfit to get a regular postage letter from the point of mailing in San Francisco or Port land to the point of delivery in southern Oregon in less than j three days? If so, it would be nice. Detroit U.PJ Harold Emery believes his German short-hair ed pointer, the Duchess of Hei delberg, set some sort of a . record Sunday when she gave birth to 16 pups. The pups were sired by Prince Von Schoenherr who is the father ol 45. - " - Matter of Fact stewon aisop WHAT IS "MODERN REPUBLICANISM?" Washington In the six weeks during which the 85th Congress has been in session, a signiii cant pattern has become evi dent. There are big differ ences between the majority Democrats and the Adminis tration on for eign policy bigger than Stewait Alsop ever before. But there are really no basic domestic issues at all which are in dispute between the Administration and the Democratic party as a whole. The plain fact is that the dominant northern wing of the Democratic party is absolutely desperate for a vote-winning issue, and for a simple reason. In every domestic area where they might have hoped to make votes schools, health, social se curity, the soil bank, roads, civil rights and so on the Adminis tration has forestalled them with its program of "modern Repub licanism. The Eisenhower administra tion, in fact, has now conscious ly accepted the basic thesis of the dominant wing for the gen eral welfare. Marion Folsom, the able, conservative-minded Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, said as much in a recent little noted but import ant speech: ' "We say the Federal govern ment would fail to serve the people's interest if it stood idly by, indifferent to broad defici encies in neaitn, education, or economic security . . . we believe the Federal government . . . can and should act in these fields for the benefit of all the peo ple." . "POUR years ago, when the Ei- senhower administration took office with a domestic program which differed in no important respect from the program of the late Sen. Taft, such a flat, un equivocal acceptance of the basic thesis of the welfare state would have been considered a major heresy. One would have expected a thunderbolt to strike a Republi can cabinet officer who boasted, as Folsom did in the same speech, that "the level of Fed eral activities in (the welfare fields) is higher than ever be fore." Yet what Folsom said was true. His $3 billion budget makes Oscar Ewing, his Left wing equivalent in the Truman administration, look like a piker. ' By the same token, four years ago one would have expected Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson to prefer being struck by a thunderbolt to de fending a program first proposed in essence,- amidst hoots of de rision, by Henry Wallace. Yet the enormously costly soil bank scheme is such a program. Tour years ago, the Eisenhow er administration line was the budget would and could-be held to $60 billion. Instead, Federal spending in the non-defense field increased by S7 billion in the first, four Eisenhower budgets. Four years ago, the talk was all about, getting rid of "the New Deal deadwood" in the govern ment Yet the total number of government bureaucrats" out side -the Defense Department is actually higher under Eisenhow er than Truman. SUCH facts suggest why' the liberal Democrats have hard ly anything left to talk about. Yet the conservative Republi cans who are beginning to mut ter that the Eisenhower version of "modern Republicanism" is simply the New and Fair Deals over again are wrong. One dif ference is suggested by the dif ference between men like Mar ion Folsom and Ezra Benson, and men like Oscar Ewing and Henry Wallace. The Administration is staffed from top to bottom with men who, like Benson and Folsom, are deeply conservative in their outlook. "Modern Republican ism" is thus, if you will, a ver iri FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home . Phone 2-6675 sion of the New and Fair Deals, but administered by conserva tives and that is a very big difference indeed. There is another difference. Although the dollar costs of non-defense spending have risen sharply, such spending as a pro portion of the total national in come is sharply down. In this sense, "modern Republicanism" is also cheaper than the New and Fair Deals. . THUS ism" "modern Republican is very close to the formula found long ago, and successfully exploited ever since by Britain's Conservative Party take over the opposition's pro gram, cut thg cost, and admin ister it conservatively. In this sense the parallel is encourag ing. But there is another way in which the parallel is not en couraging. While non-defense spending has increased by $7 billion in four Eisenhower years, defense spending has dropped by almost as. much. Thus "modern Repub licanism" is being financed large ly at the expense of national de fense. Britain's prewar con servative governments adopted a similar system of priorities, and almost destroyed the con servative interest in Britain in the process. . , Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Change Made In Engineering Firm Marquess and Marquess, con sulting engineers of Eugene, have assumed the civil and struc tural engineering practice of the A. D. Harvey and S. C. Watkins firm of Medford, Harvey an nounced today. Harvey said he has disposed of the civil and structural prac tice so he could devote full time to consulting engineering only. Watkins will remain available to former clients, he said, and will remain in the valley for a rhile. Roberts and Walter Marquess were born and lived in Talent several years. They were gradu ated from Oregon State college, and have been practicing in Eu gene for several years, dqing me chanical and structural work; Walter Marquess will take up residence in Medford,. Harvey said, and will do civil and struc tural "engineering work here. Robert will remain at th Eu gene office, according to present plans, Harvey said. Harvey will use the office in the Goldy building temporarily. Marquess and Marquess will use facilities of the office, he said. 13 Burned To Death In Japan Market Fire , - Kagoshima, Japan (U.R Thirteen women and children were burned to death early' to day in a fire which destroyed -a market near the Kagoshima rail way station. Fire inspectors said the blaze spread so rapidly the eight -women and five children' did not have time to flee. All were sleep ing in quarters over the market. Message for a Dead Man GEO. N. TAYLOR God has no dead men - in heaven.- Here on. earth, many think their own good works will save them. Not so. It is not by good works or by being Christ-like, that we are saved. Instead, hear God. He says to receive Christ's blood as blotting out your sins. The' blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin. Open your neart. Keceive Christ's blood as cleansing away your every sin, past, present, future. Then God gives you eternal life, and the power to do His will. The new man must- eat. So feast on Bible and meet God in prayer. A Scappoose family sponsors this message. . Adv. -r 4t PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of services in every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences a n d to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainly! O
