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o o O o FOUJI MEfttTJ&D fOBEGOM) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. March 7, 1937 "Xvarra r fcautfceni Oregoo Tbb 9stl Tnhnae" Pubit.r-.ai teui Kxcept Saturday by r. .VtLXUBD rRIXTING CO 27-at Korr P'.I t Phene 1-gMI tOf"trW IICTIU Editor HERB GMT MvortKUHI Manage! GFA1D UTIUl Biuuina Manage! ERIC ALLH JI Managing Ednor EARL H .Dial CiV? Editor HARRY CHIPMA.1 Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEETT Soorte Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clan matter at Uedford Oregon under Act otf March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy I6c Dally and Sunday One year (13 00 Daily and Sunday Six months B 00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sundav Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month l 30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy AH Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Faper of Jackson County f ni ted" Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION (Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLID)Y COMPAfTY tNC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angelea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL I 0 IT 0 1 1 A k I a$socTatin Who Is "The Forgotten Man?" We have received a marked copy of the editorial page of the "SATEVEP0ST" with a suggestion that the Mail Tribune comment thereon. The editorial i3 captioned "To curb inflation, squeeze the water out of that budget." Here is an extract, quote: Both the President and Secretary Humphrey urged Con gress to look for "hundreds of items" where cuts in the estimates could be made. But surely it is the responsibility of the Budget Bureau and the Executive to point to these "hundreds of items." If there is no positive lead at the top, It is unlikely that Congress where pressures are even more intensively applied can do much to resist the trend. Nor can labor unions and businessmen, caught in the in flationary squeeze, be relied upon to hold down wages and prices. Perhaps those who order national spending could profit from perusal of the work of Yale's great sociologist, the late William Graham Sumner. In What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, which has been republished by Caxton Printers, Ltd., Sumner wrote: "The state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it away from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man." He certainly seems to have been at least temporarily overlooked in the Budget for the fiscal year 1958. "I17HAT does this add up to? ' Just more evidence, we believe, of a fact often noted in this department that the split within the GOP between Eisenhower's "Modem Republi canism" and "Old Deal Republicanism" is steadily widening. Considering the time honored conservatism of the "SEP," and its 100 per cent endorsement for years of the Republican presidential candidatees, whoever they may be, this break" with the pres ent administration can be taken as a rather sig nificant portend. "IIHAT the editorial really does, is to indict " President Eisenhower for lack of i and effective leadereship. It follows indeed the line in the congress, taken by Democratic Senator Byrd of Virginia, that in pre senting and endorsing such a record-breaking peace time expenditure of federal funds, there was not only a sharp turn toward the "welfare state" but in re questing cuts by members of the congress and private citizens, there was a direct evasion of execu tive responsibility, the Virginia senator maintaining with the "Post" that if "hundreds of items" could be reduced or eliminated, it was up to the President and his chief of the Budget Bureau to REDUCE them, and not try to "pass the buck" to Congress or the people. AS FOR the dictum of Yale's great sociologist, William Graham Sumner, that "the state can't trpf n fpnt frnm anv man u.-irVinnr talrinrr if -fri-im enmo bership drive foy veterans or- ,v n. . . eanization. other man," that, of course, is true. Buds art now in proper con- .But does that mean that in this country there should be no financial aid for the aged, or ill or unemployed, via federal taxes by those who have more than they need for the benefit of those who have tragically less? If so who WOULD THEN be the "Forgotten Man?" R.W.R. EWSPA EI UBLIIHE1S ASJOCIATIOM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files of The Mail Tribune It. 10, SO. 40 and 50 years a. responsible Nasser May Yet Regret Closing Suez, as Alternatives Progress By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Gamal Abdel Nas ser of Egypt may be very sorry some day that he seized control of the Suez Canal. There are strong in dications that Suez, long the world's most important wa terway, may never reg a i n the importance it held before rnaries Mccno Nasser nation alized it and then blocked it because of the Israeli-British-French invasion. aaasaami aSusj Nasser's action made it alarm ingly clear that a great part of the world's supply of oil, the life blood of modern industry, was at the mercy of one man. Construction of gigantic tank ers, which would carry Middle Eastern oil around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, instead of through the canal has been started. Direct To Sea But in addition, plans are be ing worked oud by interested governments and commercial in terests to build pipelines which would take oil direct to the Mediterranean Sea and thus by pass Suez. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop 10 YEARS AGO March 7, 194T (Friday) Dale Vincent, artist, author and naturalist, who wrote "Be side tha Rogue," has returned to his home at Gold Hill. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The return of 25-year-old stolen auto Is re ported from the rural regions. Friends of the ewoer are doing their best to console him. 20 YEARS A30 March 7, 1937 (Uy) J. F. Fliegel, commander of Medford post, American legion, announces inauguration of mem- FREEDOM AND UNFREEDOM Paris The most useful advice that this reporter received in Moscow came from the most brilliant of the foreign observ e r s stationed there. "For God's sake," he said, "remember that this place isn't either '1984' or a ba nana republic. Joseph Alsop " isni ioi because it's a human society, maybe not a very nice human society, but still a human soci ety with its own built-in human problems. And it isn't a banana republic because in most ways this is a strong society, and it isn't going to be thrown by its problems at any rate in the foreseeable future." In Washington, where the 1984" view of the Soviet Union used to be too common, the lead ers of the government now seem to have swung wildly over to the banana republic view. So the above warning needs repeating before one tries to analyze what is probably the most profound Soviet problem. This problem is currently ex pressed in the ferment among Soviet students and intellectuals. Ever since the 20th Party Con gress last year, Soviet intellect uals have been -eaching greed ily out for a much larger mea sure of creative freedom in writ ing, in the theater, in painting, indeed in all the departments of art and thought. dition for spvaing. according to C. B. Cor! , iceigtant county St- 90 9tlK rcl f. iSf (VHlay) Music titetien of Ashland and Medford holi informal meeting at home of Mrs. X. I. Gore, 116 Geneva v., Medford. Spray meeting sponsored by the Fruit Growers league and county agent's office scheduled at Medford hotel. 40 YEARS AGO March 7. 1917 (Wednesday) Report by police judge at city council meeting shows total of nine cases during February with $24 collected from fines. residents voice complaint to city street department that wood dealers are driving their wagons over the sidewalks and curbs of the city where no driveway exists. What's Yeitr I.Q.? Nina or ten eorraet Is snpertor: sev en or eight is excellent; flva mt six Is food 1. The moon is sometimes visible from the earth's poles; true or false? 2. Name the author of the novel "Main Street". 3. Bible: The "Early Galilean Ministry" of Jesus extended from the rejection at Nazareth to when? 4. Seoul is the capital of which country? 5. Name the Italian author of a famous book titled "The Prince". 6. If a London housewife re fers to a "pram", what does she mean? 7. Which ex-boxer is nick named "Slapsie-Maxie"? 8. Is the process of combus tion fundamentally the same for coal, wood, oil and gasoline? 9. Is "o" or "i" the principal vowel in the word "bodice"? 10. Wrote Byron of Holland: "That wter-land of Dutchman and of d s". Answers: 1. True. 1. Sinclair Lewis. 3. The Sermon on the Mount. 4. Republic of Korea. 5. Machiavelli. $. A kafcy car riage (perambulater). 7. Max F.osenbloom. 8. Tas. 9. 10. Ditches.' 13 House Bills Signed Governor Mortres Salem ;U.P Thirteen House bills, including one to issue up to S8 million in highway bonds, were signed yesterday by Gov. : Rupert D. Holmes. State Jlighway Engineer W. C. Williams was on hand when the governor signed House bill 176 which authorizes the State High way Commission to issue state highway bonds for the purpose of highway and bridge improve ments in the state. It Looks Like Peace Yesterday marked an ironic anniversary for Israel. It was just a year ago March 6, 1956, that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion of Israel assured his Knesset (parliament) that "this government will not START a war." Ben-Gurion got an emphatic vote of confidence on that issue. Actually, Ben-Gurion was only restating a policy worked out in seven years of uneasy cold war with Israel s Arab neighbors. Even after the disclosure in September 1955 of the Egyptian-Czech ami3 deal, Ben-Gurion's predecessor, Moshe Sharett, resisted demands for preventive war by Israeli hotheads, led by the extremist Herut party. At Geneva a month later, Sharett, then confernng with foreign minis ters of the Big Four, declared : "I hope to God Israel will not be driven to this to what might appear a short-cut to the solution of our grave problems. Sharett's declaration was made a year and two days before Israel actually did launch a military effort closely akin to preventive war. On Oct. 29, 1956, her forces stabbed deep into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, driving toward the Suez Canal. The Israeli Foreign Ministry described this as taking "security measures to eliminate the Egyptian fedayeen (com mando) bases in the Sinai Peninsula." The decision to strike was made, it said, after persistent declara tions by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser that his country "remains in a state of war with Israel." The Foreign Ministry charged that Nasser's hopes of annihilating Israel had been "crowned a few days ago by a bynan-Jordan-Egyptian military command under the Egyptian Commander-in-Chief." The three-nation command had been established Oct. 24 five days before the Israel attack. DRITAIN and France responded to the Israel move against Egypt by issuing a 12-hour ultimatum to both sides to quit fighting. Egypt was urged to per mit temporary occupation of the Suez Canal Zone by British and French forces. Egypt rejected, Israel ACCEPTED the cease-fire ultimatum conditionally. The United States called for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to consider the military action against Egypt. Britain and France on Oct 30 vetoed two resolutions, one proposed by the U.S. and one by Soviet Russia, urging a cease- fire. . , , Anglo-French air forces bombed Egyptian in stallations on Oct. 31. A joint paratroop force was dropped on the Suez Canal Zone on Nov. 5. On B Y the same token, the univer sity students, especially in the great centers like Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev, have been talking very freely among them selves. From time to time, they have even given rather sharp public expression to their new found, Gomulka-like views by asking embarrasing questions at lectures, by holding demonstra tions, and in other ways that would have been unthinkable in the past. The regime's concern about the "excesses" of the intellectu als can be detected in the im passioned defenses of "Socialist realism" and the fervid attacks on its attackers which have been appearing in the Soviet press The regime's concern about stu dents has also been revealed. For instance, an entire issue of "Young Commuist" was recently devoted to warnings against "young people, members of the Young Communist League among them, who give in to the demagogy of bourgeois propa ganda" and criminally believe in "tales about the freedom of in dividuals" in no n-Communist countries. Among students, particularly disciplinary measures also seem to have been used. Some stu dents have almost certainly been dismissed and this means a lot in a country where a university training is the only escape route from the gray existence of the great, gray mass at the bottom of the pyramid. There also seem to have been a few discreet ar rests in extreme cases. From Washington SUCH are the fairly well estab lished facts. The question is what to make of them. If the wisest Moscow analysts are to be trusted, the answer is curiously complex. In brief, the right way to see the ferment among the students and intellectuals is not as a cen tral Soviet problem at the pres ent time, but as the by-product of still another problem. This is the problem the Soviet leaders are trying to solve by their truly staggering planned shakeup of the whole Soviet industrial econ omy. In fact it is the problem of running a high technical society. As has been suggested before in this series of reports, you can build a high technical society with the knout. Josef Stalin did just that. But you cannot develop and expand and amplify a high technical society with the knout. As a certain stage, all the key persons, industrial manag ers, scientists, technicians, engin eers of all sorts, need a sense of being free to make decisions and communicate among themselves and assume responsibilities with out danger of reprisal. That is the only way to go on building toward still higher goals. In some sense at least, this need for more freedom has been recognized and met by the So viet leadership. There is more freedom today in the Soviet Union. And precisely because there is more freedom in gen eral, the intellectuals and stu dents, the two specially lrre pressible groups throughout modern Russian history, have been thereby emboldened. TN effect, they were given an inch. They took an ell. And now they are being pushed back to two inches, by exhortation and by disciplinary measures which have thus far been rela tively mild if they are judged by the grim standards of the Soviet past. That is where the matter rests for the present. One has to say "for the pres ent," however, because of the very nature of this problem of freedom versus unfreedom. On the one hand, the regime would have to restore Stalin-style disci pline in order to restore the chilly, universal silence of the Stalin era. Eut as long as think ing Soviet citizens go on freely talking among themselves, as they still do, the boredom and discontent with the endless, gov- ernnessy Communist uplift, the prevailing Puritanism and the of ficially sponsored dreariness, will continue and increase. But on the other hand, Stalin- style discipline cannot be easily restored, partly because there is no Stalin, but also because Sta linism's restoration would freeze Soviet society, preventing the great further growth of wealth and power and productivity that the ieaders want. There is the dilemma. It is a long range di lemma. It docs not endanger the regime. But it quite probably one is tempted to say almost cer tainly means that in fits and starts, with many retreats as well as advances, this strange So viet society will go on evolving as it has been evolving in the last four years. (Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc.) A new development Is that France has intensified explora tion of what appear to be enor mously valuable oil fields in the Sahara Desert region of Algeria, at the western end of the Medi terranean. American, British and Dutch interests also are exploring big oil deposits in Libya, which ad joins Algeria on the east. Egypt has been hit hard by Nasser's seizure and closure of the canal. Of course, Egypt's fellow Arab nations, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, also have been hurt painfully by the curtailment of their oil shipments. The most important pipeline project now under consideration is one that would take Iraqi oil to the Turkish port of Isken derun on the Mediterranean. Iraq's oil flow was cut be cause Syrian guerrillas cut the pipeline which carried its out put to the Mediterranean. The possibility of sending Iranian oil through an exten sion of this pipeline also is un der consideration. A pipeline, smaller but never theless potentially important, is planned to run through Israel from the port of Elath, on an arm of the Red Sea, to the Mediterranean. Nasser has good reason now to ask himself whether he really was so smart in taking his dra matic action. the same day, the Russian government announced its full determination to crush aggressors and re store peace in the Middle East." A note to France mentioned modem and terrible weapons. As a result the British and French governments ordered their forces to cease firing at midnight Nov. 6 in accordance with a U.N. General Assembly resolution. Israel complied as well; her forces had attained their objectives the day before. ISRAEL claimed to have captured $50 million worth of Egyptian equipment, mainly received from Communist countries, and 30,000 Egyptian soldiers, On Nov. 8, in response to a cablegram from President Eisenhower, Israel announced that it would with draw from the Sinai Peninsula when "satisfactory arrangements were made with the special U.N Emergency Force. The first contingent of the U.N. police force landed in Egypt on Nov. 15, and Israel announced the de parture of some of its troops 10 days later. By Jan, 22, all Israeli forces had been withdrawn except for those in the Gaza Strip and the southern outpost of Sharm el Sheikh on the Gulf of Aqaba. They are now being evacuated trom both of these areas and even Nasser is showing signs of some restraint. It is too early to stage a celebration, but it does for the first time this year, look like peace in the Mideast. . By Roscoe Drummond THE UN-PARTY VOTERS Washington A report on the attitudes and votes of a nation-wide sample of 2,000 adults, prepared by the University of Michigan Research Center, yields some fresh political in sight. Much of the evidence which comes from this poll begins to call into question one of the most common interpretations of the 1956 election. That interpre tation was that if the Republi cans couldn't win Congress then the country was giving more than a 9,000,000 majority to President Eisenhower, they haven't a pinball gambler's chance of regaining Congress next year when Mr. Eisenhower will not be on the ticket. This is the familiar post-1956 thesis; it is an obvious and easy one and I do not lightly put it aside particularly when you bear in mind that in 1958 there will be only 11 Democratic Sen ate seats at slake compared with 21 Republican Senate seats and a higher percentage of Republi can seats will be in doubtful ter TUT this Michigan University study adds new insight into the behavior of the voters last fall. It underlines these facts: That the trend is steadily away from bloc voting. That the electorate in every part of the country is more mal- I leable than it has been in many Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. out across the hills to the people but to see the children on Sun day morning, from the largest to the smallest, waiting their turn to ring the bell, their eyes as large as dinner plates. If you happen to be the one passing by and you hear the bell weak and irregular we want you to know some little child' hand is pulling the rope. Maybe the pastor is holding him up or maybe he's standing on- tip-toe, feeling he s accom plishing something really great making that big bell away up in the tower ring. Then some day when bells are only to be found in museums, he can tell his grandchildren about the bell he once helped to ring. Mrs. Delbert Casey, Route 1, Box 358, Central Point, Ore. No Annexation To the Editor: Do you and the citizens of Medford know that according to your planning com mission, a health hazard exists on the border of your city lim its? Your City Council does. I am referring to the Berrydale area which is an area just north of the Big Y market. The chair man of your City Planning Com mission is in possession of the findings of a county sanitation survey which states that a large per cent of the dwellings have sewage seeping to the top of the ground from septic tanks in a soil that will not carry it away. This area has formed a sani tation district and petitioned your council to allow them to dump their sewage into the main sewage line from Medford to the disposal plant on Rogue River at Camp White. Your City Coun cil has denied them this privil ege, even though it would mean more revenue for the city and the disposal unit (which the city got for $1.00) can handle twice the amount being ' dumped at present. They seem to be interested only in annexation, yet accord ing to their own reports this area would be a detriment to the city. I suggest that you contact your councilman and find out the facts in the Berrydale annexa tion problem. James R. Tungate, 49 Mace Rd. Medford, Ore. Story of the Bell To the Editor: This is what you might call the story of the bell. A church bell, that is. This church bell is in the tower of a little country church on Black well Hill named "The Church in the Pines" as the present pastor built it in the midst of 21 very tall pine trees. The bell was purchased almost eight years ago from a then well known resident of Central Point, since deceased. He brought the bell with him from Philadelphia when a young man and used the bell to call the hired help in from the pear orchards for lunch. After much prayer and persuasion he finally parted with the bell for $50. What a pleasure the bell has proven to be. Not only to ring years. (The Republicans have been - gaining steadily among skilled, semi-skilled and un skilled working families, while the Democrats picked up strength last year among farm ers and upper-income groups.) xhat, while voters identifying themselves as Democrats con tinue to outnumber Republicans by more than 3-to-2, a 2-to-l ma jority feels that the Republican party more closely reflects their lews on foreign policy. This last point seems to me particularly significant. If the nation favors the Republican party 2-to-f on foreign policy and if foreign policy is the domi nant issue at the time of next year's Congressional elections. as seems probable, the possibil ity of the Republicans regaining Congress must be considered within reach. The prospect of this happen ing would be furthered if the majority of the Republicans in the House and Senate establish themselves as strong supporters of the President while the Demo crats, especially in the Senate, drift into pretty regular opposi tion. This is what is happening thus far on the Middle East resolu tion. It was passed by an over whelming bi-partisan vote in the House. But on the first critical test in the Senate, namely, the effort of Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.) to strike ithe economic aid clause from the Eisenhower Doctrine, 28 Democrats went into opposition to the President while he lost the support of only 5 Republicans. If the Michigan University re search center is right in report ing a 2-to-l majority for the President5s foreign policy and these polls are more scientific in measuring attitudes than in pre dicting how people will vote then this solid Republican Sena torial backing of the Eisenhower Doctrine may help put the party in an advantageous position for the Congressional elections next 11. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Hopeful note in the news: The Institute of Life Insurance says Americans will save 24 bil lion dollars this year as against a little less than 21 billions last year. 11HY is that so hopeful? ' Well, if people will SAVE UP ENOUGH OF IT, there wiU be money enough available to build more houses, build more factories, build more roads and provide all the useful and necessary things that can be pro vided with SAVED-UP CAPI TAL. These things can be had, of course, with printing press money but when we get them that way they are followed by economic headaches. When they come normally and naturally out of the savings of the people, they can be had without headaches. BESIDES We'll all be better off person ally if every week, every month and every year we save up a lit tle money and park it away in some sound investment. SOME people get ahead in the world. Others don't. Why? THE Michigan poll shows how hoth nartips broke through bloc voting habits. Adlai Steven son got 13 per cent more ot me professional, business and mana gerial eroups than President Truman did in 1948. He gained moderately among white collar workers. In all other labor groups President Eisenhower's strength continued to go up as did his popularity among voters with high school and grade school education with whom the Democrats used to be top choice. What impresses me most of ' all is the malleability of the electorate. Take Hudson County (New Jersey). Nobody can re member when 'it last elected a Republican Congressman. It elected a Republican Congress man last fall and came within 24 votes of- electing two. On the other hand Maine gave the Dem ocrats a Congressman and came within an arm's length of giving them two. There are about 900,000-more registered Democrats than regis tered Republicans in California, but they are so unimpressed by party labels that again last year thev elected only on statewide Democratic office-holder, the At torney General. Neither party can take the voter for granted. (Copyright New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) THERE are many reasons. Some people are .gifted with gumption. Others aren't. It has been noted by thoughtful people all down through the centuries that those who put a little aside j regularly, SO THAT WHEN OPPORTUNITIES COME ALONG THEY CAN BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF, are the ones who get ahead in the world. The ones who don't get ahead are those who spend it as fast as it comes in and so never have any ready capital with which to take advantage of opportunities that present themselves. Savings DO come in handy. INSURANCE Can Be Expensive... ASSURANCE Costs Very Little! If you and each member of your family have not had chest X-rays recently, call the Sacred Heart Hospital and make an appointment soon! It is insurance that costs very little . . . but is assurance that it invaluable. DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary ' Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass 'funeral directors
