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o o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDP0RDv4TRIBimE lveryon In Southern Oregon Beam The Mall Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFOTtD PRINTING CO 7-2S North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor rTERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. 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EDITORIAt ASSOCNAMCN rui Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 25. 1957 (Tuesday) CXlo Ewaldsen, vice president of local Toastmasters, named best speaker in contest finals. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: History re ragpted itself for Central Point last week. In a tournament nine years ago, they walloped Port Orford, 70-18. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 25. 1937 (Thursday) Possibility of a three-way tie between Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass High school debate teams for southern Oregon dis trict championship appear as MedfdPd wins 2-1 decision over Grants Pass. County Agent Bob Fowler an nounces serial of soil conserva ) tion meetings. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 25. 1927 (Friday) County Agent R. G. Fowler says southern Oregon poultry outlook for 1927 is better than it was last year. Roy Hockett elected president of Southern Oregon Banker's as sociation. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 25. 1917 (Sunday) Two inches of precipitation is Recorded after Saturday's storm. QAbout 120 tracts, totaling 10, 000 acres of timber land, graz ing land and irrigable land on Klamath Indian reservation will be advertised for sale by Super intendent William reer. 0 What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior: sev rja, or eleht is excellent: fiva or sR Is ( 1. A Roosevelt's image is on a 6c stamp; what is his given name? 2. 1834: The streets of New i Orleans wqre lighted for the first j time with what kind of an il-1 luminator? I 3. Bible: Does the Book of Rutjj have four, six or seven chapters? 4. fs1 Rowena or Rebecca the axon panaess in Scott's "Ivan hoe?" 5. Was Robert Lansing the Secretary of State during Roose vc's administration? 6. Is Salzburg in Germany, Austria, or Czechslovakia? 7. Can able salt be used suc cessfully in freezing ice cream? 8. Jlame fhe capital of Ber muda. 9. Does the delta describe the land the mouth or source of a river 10. In the proverb. "The motgain labored and brought forta a " what? Adswers 1. Theodore. 2. Gas. 3. Four. 4. Rowena. 5. No Wil sons. 6. Austria. 7. No. 8. Hamil tog 9. Mouth. 10. "Meuse." State 'h&partment Seeks Assurances from Poland Washington (U.R) T h c State Department has assured Congress it will grant no aid to Poland without first getting as surances the help goes to Polish people and not Russia, officials said Saturday. The pledge is aimed at spiking congressional criticism of eco nomic aid talks with Poland scheduled to begin here Tuesday. A five-man Polish steam arrived in the United States Thursday for tbg discussions. T" .T'iJlimM.H.. JSfil E W S PA PER PUBLISHERS VS-A"SSOCIATION Taxes and Schools A quotation from James A. Garfield says: "Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him." Perhaps the citizens and voters of School District 6C had something of this sort in mind when, last Mon day, they voted down a couple of bond issues for school improvement at Crater High school. This is a time of high taxes, and with every indica tion that they will go higher. When taxpayers vote down an added tax on themselvese, it can be under stood. DUT there are at least three fallacies in that Mark Hopkins quotation when it is applied to the situa tion in the big school district in the north of the coun ty fallacies which the 42 students who last week protested the outcome of the vote know well. The first is that few teachers, however qualified, are of the caliber of Mark Hopkins. The second is that, today, it is hardly sound econ omy to have one teacher per pupil, as Garfield asked in his whimsical tribute. The third is that, lacking one-Hopkins-per-student, "buildings, apparatus and libraries" are vital and nec essary to the process of education. TXE HOPE that the members of the "Jackson Coun- ty Tax Payers League" (whatever that rather mysterious organization may be) will accept the invi tation of the Crater High school students to visit the plant, the school rooms, the laboratories and the halls of that school. We hope they DO conduct an "extensive survey" of the school to find out whether or not their tax dol lars are being well spent on the young people of the community. School patrons, we are informed, are al ways, and always will be, welcome to inspect the schools. The students at the school included in their letter what we consider to be a powerful indictment of too many of us: ". . . We would like to make a plea a plea to our par ents and friends to please look up the facts and to be care ful of the propaganda that comes their way before putting a mark on the ballot sheet of any election . . ." m THE bond election in 6C last week, similar diff icul- ties in other school districts elsewhere in the state, and other symptoms, indicate that people are feeling their property taxes, which are piled on top of state and federal income taxes, and a host of others, some disguised and some not. Property taxes are high, there's no disputing it. Yet, measured in "real" dollars, not the inflated, 48 cent dollars of today, we doubt they are a great deal .higher than they were in dollar. THERE'S one more thing, too. If school populations continue to rise (and they will), additions to schools are going to continue to be necessary. By post poning the "evil day," the cost is going to be no less, and, if the trend of inflation continues, will be consid erably more. Voting down necessary additions to "save money" will make the ultimate cost higher. It's a little like cut ting off one's nose to spite one's face. Personally, there are few things in which we'd rather invest than the future of the nation, through our youngsters and the schools which train them. And, as the Crater High kids said, "You will give your chil dren more money than that, (the proposed tax in crease) over 20 years for less important things than an education !" E. A. Boredom and Idleness The Devil, according to the old axiom, finds work for idle hands. Like so many of the old maxims with which we are all familiar, it is based on observation of human na ture, and generally has more truth in it than it does falsehood. Qne can see it operating in a dozen fields. Bright youngsters who don't have enough to do to keep busy are apt to get into trouble. Bored matrons, freed from much housework by modem appliances, too often de vote their lives to little more than the bridge table or the cocktail bar. Older people, "freed" from work through retirement, sometimes go all to pieces. THIS is the reason that the development of recrea tional facilities is so important. This is why hob bies have come to- be such big business. This is why participation spoils have grown so rapidly recently. It is all complicated by the fact that the average working week has dropped from 50 or 60 or 70 hours down to little more than 40, and with the prospect that it will decrease further. People, in short, do not appear to be constructed so that they can spend their time in simple, harmless idleness for very long. They've got to DO something. And the choice is between something constructive on one hand, and "the Devil's work" on the other. DECENT experiments tend to support this thesis on a scientific basis. Researchers tested human sub jects in complete isolation, cutting off most noise, vision and tactile sensations. ( The reactions started with reminiscence, reviews of recent studies, and so on, but soon degenerated into irritability. Then came hallucinations. They "saw" dots of light, lines, geometrical f orms. Later the vis ions became more complex, colorful and vivid. Afterwards they were dazed and confused, their thinking ability was impaired, there were childish emotional responses. As Carlyle said, "Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness." E.A. Monday, February 25, 1957 the day of the 100-cent Victory for Nehru in Election In India Appears To Be Certain By CHARLES H. McCANN United Press Correspondent Indian Prime Minister Jaw aharlal Nehru apparently is about to win a thumping elec tion victory. The first of about 200 mil lion Indian vo ters have start ed to the polls to elect a new "house of the people," the lower house of p a r 1 i a ment which like the British House Charles McCsnn of Commons is the legislative authority. The voting iwll continue until March 14. When the final re sults are announced, about Mar. 31, there seems to be no doubt that they will show a triumph for Nehru. Since India attained its inde pendence in 1947, Nehru has been unchallenged in his posi tion as his country's head man. Nehru is the leader of the In dian National Congress, as his party is called. Against him are the Communists, the Socialist and the small right wing Jan Sangh party. No Real Issues In the last election in 1952, Matter of Fact KHRUSHCHEV'S PRICE Washington : The report by this reporter's partner of his in terview with the Soviet Union's number one, Nikita S. KhrU shchev has of course been conned over word for word by the g o vernment's Soviet ex perts. The most import- stewa.it aisod ant woras, they agree, were those in which Khrushchev spelled out the So viet price for withdrawing the Red Army from the statellites. Khrushchev was more speci fic in this respect than any So viet spokesman has ever been before. In return for withdraw ing the Red Army, he said, Western European countries would also withdraw their troops stationed in the territor ies of other Western European countries. The United States would also withdraw its troops to American territory from Eu rope and Asia, and along with that would go the liquidation of all foreign bases." Thus Khrushchev demanded the liquidation of NATO and of course it has always been as sumed that this would be part of the price. But Khrushchev al so demanded, in effect, the total liquidation of the American pow er position, not only in Europe, but Asia. He demanded the with drawal of ' American forces everywhere, from Greenland to Okinawa. Editorial Comment OUGHT TO BE A LAW Marjorie, how about taking a letter, a vigorous, mad letter, and please make seven copies one for each of our senators and representatives. If I don't make this tough, enough, add some words of your own. Start it out, the Hon. So-and-So and say: "You guys sit around up there in the nice dry Capitol Bldg., which is fine for you. But you probably don't realize what is happening on the streets out side assuming, of course, that Salem is having the kind of weather we're having. . "At last look you had before you upwards of a thousand bills, memorials, resolutions, joint res olutions and personal gripes. Many of them were trivial. Why don't you do something import ant? "You and your predecessors in that great deliberative body have taken care of the drunken driver, the coyote, the careless hunter and the footpad. But not a one of you has given any con sideration to the lady with the umbrella. "Why don't you amend ORS whatever-the-number-is to pro vide banishment to the Sahara for any female person over the age of three who does knowing ly, willfully, maliciously, and with intent to do great bodily harm carry, poke, jab or thrust an umbrella, parasol or similar device into the eyes, ears, scalp, neck, hat, throat or Adam's ap ple of any male person over the age of three while he is peace fully going about his business on any public street, highway, sauare. scramble-amble cross walk or other thoroughfare? "And then since you're spend ing so much money anyhow why don't you appropriate a little sum, say maybe $50,000, for the advertising, promotion and encouragement of the old- fashioned sou'wester rain hat, that lovely garment that never poked out an eye in more than three centuries of glorious Am erican history? ' Sign that "indignant consti tuent." Thanks. Eugene Regis ter-Guard. it' . - " Nehru's men got only 45 per cent of the votes. But they won 362 of the 489 seats contested. The Communists won 23, Inde pendents 41. The rest went to small parties. There is every ' reason to be lieve that this proportion will not be changed substantially In the present election. There are no real campaign issues. The Indian Communists, like those in other countries, are still suffering from the effects of the big wrangle over Josef Stalin's demotion from political sainthood. As Nehru's own do mestic policies are socialistic, the Socialists have little to of fer. Hence the vote will be largely for or against Nehru, and he re mains as he has been, the idol of his people. May Meet Setbacks He may meet some setbacks in scattered areas where the Communists and Socialists have ganged up against Congress party men. But the election as a whole is pertain to constitute a vote of confidence for Nehru's some what odd way of looking at things. Nehru v might be called the world's most benevolent dicta tor. He isn't a dictator in the By Stewart Alsop Another part of his price was that the Western powers should recognize the Communist regimes as permanent "to ac cept this, as a believer would say, as something given by God." The clear implication here is that, even after the Red Army withdrew, the Soviets would claim the right to use force to prevent the over-throwing of the "God-given" Communist regim es. ' Khrushchev's statement has thus greatly strengthened the negative side in a vitally signifi cant subterranean debate which has been going on within the American government. The de bate has centered around these questions: Is it worth while to attempt seriously to negotiate with the Soviets on their terms for with drawing the Red Army to their borders? If so, what price might the United States and the West be prepared to pay for such a withdra-.val? The debate' has been subter ranean because the subject of debate is as internationally sen sitive as it is possible to be. Yet it has been a most serious debate all the same. Indeed, the subject has been discussed repeatedly by the President and the mem bers of the National Security Council. - The immidate impetus of the debate was provided by the Hungarian uprising. Hungary seemingly proved three things. First, the Red Army, and only the Red Army, held the Soviet satellite empire together. Sec ond, the only hope for the satel lites therefore lay in the with drawal of the Red Army. Third, failing such a withdrawal, fur ther uprisings in the sateUite were probable, and such upris ings especially in East Germ any involved the clear risk of a world war. Soviet Premier Bulganin's let ter of Nov. 20 to President Eis enhower, when the Hungarian revolt was at its height, further stimulated the secret debate. For the Bulganin letter proposed, at least by implication, a mutual 500-mile withdrawal from a de militarized zone in Central Germany. Such a withdrawal would take American forces out of Germ any, and thus1 for all practical purposes off the contient. But it would also take the Red Army out of most of the satellite area. A minority within the govern ment chiefly Harold Stassen and State Department policy planner Robert Bowie con tended that this at least suggest ed that the Soviets might be in a mood to negotiate seriously about mutual withdrawal. Outside the government, ex-ambassador to the Soviet Union George Kennan, who still has enormous influence with the for eign service professionals, also argued that the time had come to "study the various possibilities . withdrawal of both Soviet and American forces from Cen tral and Eastern Europe." The President was impressed by such arguments. The Pentagon especially was violently opposed. Ultimately it was decided to hold the whole matter in abeyance But Khrushchev's statement seems to nave written finis to the debate, perhaps once and for all. For Khrushchev's price was not a withdrawal of American forces from contiental Europe, but a withdrawal of all Ameri can .forces, in Asia as well as Europe, back to the continental United States. This is not a seri ous basis for negotiation, and, in the view of the best judges, it was not intended to be. In short, if there ever was a time when a new approach looking towards world settlement was possible, that time appears to have passed. 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. traditional sense. His leadership is unchallenged because the peo ple like him. They follow his stand on Com munism. He likes Russian and Chinese Communists but not his own. He faces the world as . a friend of man. He is for self de termination. Everywhere that is, except where he is concerned. He has defied the UN in his at tempt to grab the disputed state of Kashmir, and his army is fighting the Naga tribesmen who demand self determination for themselves. His attitude, on mat ters of that sort, is like the phys ician's injunction to his patients: Do as I say, not as I do. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Big Question: What shall we do with obstre perous Little Israel? Shall we take her out in the woodshed and spank her for going on the warpath last faU meanwhile telling her it hurts us worse than it hurts her, but we're doing it for her own good? Or shall we pat her on the back and tell her we think she did the right thing? IT'S quite a problem. Among other things, the problem of what to do with her is complicated by emotion. All fair-minded persons must feel sympathy for the Israelis. With the help of their people all over the world, they are trying to build themselves a home in the land of their fathers out of what was a hopeless desert when they started in. All in all, they have done a rather wonderful job of it. BUT There are practical com plications.' One of them is the fact amply demonstrated in the fight ing last fall that if turned loose and given a reasonable amount of sympathetic backing they could lick the socks off all the Arab countries in short order. One reason for that is that if they should go to all-out war they would know they were fighting for their homes and their lives. The strength of men who know they are fighting for their lives and their homes is as the strength of ten. All history has proved that fact. TJUSSIA knows that if turned loose and given a free field Israel could wipe up the ineffi cient Arab nations and become the DOMINANT factor in the Middle Eeast. Russia knows also that Israel's leanings are aU toward the West. So ft is highly probable that in the event of an all-out Israel- Arab war Russia would back up the Arabs with limitless "volun teers" and munitions of war. That could lead to World War III. It is the PRACTICAL compli cation in the situation. It is what Ike is trying to avoid. QOMETHING to keep in mind & Ike can't disclose his hand any more than- a poker player can. But it is inconceivable that he is out to destroy Israel. He certainly must be trying to find a way whereby the Jews and the Arabs can live together more or less peacefully in the troubled Middle East. Communications Letters to the Editor mutt bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Mine Tax Opposed To the Editor: A rather un popular bill now in preliminary stages of the Oregon state tax committee at Salem would place j a tax on all raw minerals newly i mined including stone, gravel, minerals from water, Sand, pre cious, semi-precious gemstones and rare earth elements. : The enactment of a kindred ! law would in our belief be more j of a hindrance to the legitimate j prospector or mine operator of Oregon than a boost to the min ing industry. With more mineral production needed instead of less, mining would quite natural ly increase Oregon's potential wealth. Average small operator to be successful must be able to buy equipment that is required before any minerals can be pro cessed. , - To levy a production tax may have a tendency to discourage all future mining for Oregon. We disapprove of the contem plated tax plan. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford, Ore. COMPETITION " East Hartford, Conn. (UJ3 The local Chamber of Commerce ordered an advertising agency to remove signs from utility poles which pointed the way to a huge shopping center in ad joining Manchester. Anniversary of Law Guild Reminds Wilson Of Problems of 30s By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) The Na tional Lawyers guild concluded in New York over the week end a 20th anniversary convention which is a re minder that back there in February, 1937, FDR's New Deal both came of age and began to wither. That was the month and year in which brash Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) put an armlock for keeps on big industry in the United States. The first week of February, 1937. saw Mr. Roosevelt's plan for reorganization of the Su preme court presented to Con gress. The National Lawyers guild was born in the Washington ho tel here after four days of labor pains ending Feb. 22, 1937. GOP Prostrate Mr. Roosevelt's Supreme court plan broke the fighting front of the New Deal coalition in the least expected of sectors that held by the Democratic party itself. , All of this came in a matter of months after the 1936 New Deal political sweep which gave FDR every state but Maine and Vermont. The Republican party was prostrate, its congressional membership reduced to a hand- full. Lyl C. Wilson John L. Lewis' U.P. Correspondents Forecast Future News United Press carrasnanHsnti around the world look ahead at the news thai will make the headlines. Atom Battle Cut-throat competition is building up between the United States and Britain over "atoms for peace." Both are trying to capture the free world's atomic power market. The British are striving to sell other countries copies of their Calder Hall power reactor. America's West inghouse Electric Corp: is push ing another kind a bigger, im proved version of the highly suc cessful Nautilus submarine pro pulsion plant and the nearly complete nuclear power station at Shippingport, Pa. The British have one advantage their Cal der Hall plant, the world's first big atomic power facility, is al ready operating. Little Lady Insiders in London now con fide that it was Lady Eden not his doctors or his political ad visers who finally persuaded Sir Anthony Eden to step out from the prime ministry of Brit ain last month. Eden is genuine ly sick. Some people believe he never will recover from his present bout of recurrent fevers after his gall bladder illness. Protection I Then Senate Labor Rackets Investigating Committee is issu inug subpoenas for all likely witnesses for their own protec tion. Anyone who tampers with a scubpoenaed witness is liable to prosecution for contempt. A carpenters union official who was questioned by investigators but not subpoenaed was threat ened with bodily harm. The com mittee could do nothing about it. Hence, the decision to sub poena all witnesses from now on, as a warning. C-Bomb Hint Allied intelligence agents in Europe are trying to find out whether Russia could have de veloped a cobalt bomb; more de structive even than the H-bomb. The Moscow newspaper Red FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 Mr. Roosevelt's court plan was denounced as a program of court packing. The bitter debate became more bitter as it prog ressed in a matter of six months to a smashing Senate repudia tion of the President's court plan. Emboldened by FDR's sortie against the Supreme court, a group of New Deal lawyers de cided to attack an almost equal ly strong point of tradition and political conservatism the American Bar association. 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