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o o FOU tF01B (CB5G0V) Vli.lL THIBTJNE "Everyone in Southern urecos Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally Exceot Saturday by MEDFOKD PRINTING CO 21 -2b North Fir St Pbone 1-8141 ROBERT V HUHL Editor HITRS GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manage ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EAR1 H ADAMS Clt Editor HARRY CH1PMA.N Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEW ETT Soorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSO.N Circulation Mgr, An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second claaa matter at Medlord Oregon under Act of March 3 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday On year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mot 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 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 818 00 Dally and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per cony Ail lermj Lash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of iaca-son County United Press .FuU Leased Wire MEMBE. OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative EST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC (jiflees In New York Chicago, de feat San Francisco Los Angeles 6'aatle Portland St Louis Atlanta couver B C JfATIOWAl. EDITOIIAs ASSOC AM CN BWIaXH H.'.IXLLLU I" NEWSPAPE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 19. 1947 (Wednesday) Charles Holbrook is elected commander of the Crater Lake post. Veterans of Foreign Wars. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge' Pot column: "They say that in China a man doesn't know his wife until they are married. That happens right here In Burlington." (Burlington (Wis.) Democrat) Ditto here. 20 YEARS AGO March 19. 1937 (Friday) A special session for wives of Boy Scout executives of Crater Lake area council was a feature of annual court of honor last night. The Rogue River national for est staff, now in the annex next Oto the postoffice, moves to new quarters in the Liberty building soVearb AGO March 19. 1927 (Saturday) At midnight tonight the new long distance building of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company will be placed into ser vice. Tkfrs. . Susanne H. Carter, county superintendent, has re turned from an National Educa tion association meeting in Dal las recently. 40 TEARS AGO March 19. 1917 (Monday) OThree American steamships with 85 Americans aboard have been torpedoed by German sub- q marip vith two sunk. . Banft statements show that the business of the Farmers and Fruitgrowers bank has more than doubled during the present management. Wbal's Your I.Q.? Nin or ten correct in tupertor, en cr eight It excellent; live ? tlx la cood. 1. Was President Tyler's first name Zachary or John? 2. The magnetic compass util izes what directive force? 3. Bible: How many pieces of silver did Judas receive for be traying Christ? 4. What does the name Dachau mean to you? 5. Vhich state in the U.S. is Oierst to the North Pole. 9. Is Locarno in Italy, Switzer land, Prance, or Spain? 'What are sabots? . Vho was the "melancholy t 'When did the twentieth O century? begin? 10. Is royal jelly the food of the larvae of queen bees, a kind Oof marmalade, or a lubricant? Answers: 1. John. 2. The earth's magnetism. 3. Thirty. 4. The notorious Dachau concentra tion camp in Germany. 5. Minne sota. 6. Switzerland. 7. Wooden shoes. 8. Hamlet. 9. Jan. 1. 1901. 10. Food of the larvae of queen bees.Q A 'HAPPY' HIGHWAY West Palm Beach. Fla. (U.P.) Florida's new Sunshine State Parkway was christerd for a second time Monday with moonshine whiskey. The occa sion was the first capture of a bootlegger on the newly opened toll road. State highway patrol men arrested Dewey Lee Young after a chase and confiscated his bootleg load of 575 gallons. The whiskey was dumped in park way ditches excent for a quan tity save for evidence. J.i "F. S. " Will Be Missed We will miss Frank B. Streeter as editor of the Grants Pass Courier. The "stormy petrel" of Josephine county has re tired, not only from the "Courier" but from the news paper business, which he has enlivened in various capacities for half a century, all the way from Aber deen, South Dakota, to the "Climate City," via Long Beach, California where he worked and resided for 20 years. Quite a newspaper career. And judging his past by his decade in our neigh boring city, both a .pestiferous and predictable one. For "F.S." was not only completely dedicated to the policies of the Grand Old Party, whatever they might be, but was in a constant state of indignation, against anything or anyone, who dared to deviate from the straight and narrow line of party 100 per cent regu larity. As a result he was never an enthusiast for Presi dent Eisenhower or his "Modern Republicanism," though, of course, his hatred for everything Demo cratic and liberal kept him in line. He was at heart an ultra-conservative and isolationist of the Old Guard type, pretty closely following the editorial ideology of the Chicago Tribune under Colonel McCormick, even to the extent at one time of extolling with the Colonel the virtues of Senator McCarthy and "Mc Carthyism." .... MEEDLESS to say, the Mail Tribune often came di rectly into the line of F.S.'s editorial ire and fire and we don't believe it an exaggeration to say, that during the past four or five years this "independent" paper, became a Streeter obsession. Scarcely a day passed that the editor now retiring did not turn one of his verbal "six-guns" in our direc ; tion, and blast away with a vindictive and vicious gleam in his editorial eye, mixing his political "bi- w. r. " -fi. ,..."n. , . 1 1 i : i : uuva un.cn vvilii uiipiea&aia personalities. We did not like the personalities. But we are quite sincere in saying that we liked and will miss the Streeter editorials. For they were always readable, always vigorous, and always, at least from our viewpoint, WRONG. TT BECAME with us, in fact, a sort of a game. We A kept looking for a lucid and enlightened interval, but never found one. Certainly if as Emerson main tained "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," then one must conclude that "F.S." had no more use for the Seer of Concord than he had for F.D.R. and the New Deal. For Editor Streeter was completely and invariably consistent. When the "Friendly Southern Pacific" became an issue in Southern Oregon, for example, there were some observers of the journalistic scene in this part of the state who thought the "Big Business" lure would fail. It did with every other Republican daily south of Eugene. But not with the stalwart and sturdy defender of the "vested interests" in Grants Pass. According to the Courier indeed the opponents of this billion dollar utility or cheap, self-seeking politicians emulating the late Hiram Johnson. Those who failed to see the justice and righteousness of the S.P. cause in abandoning all passenger service should to. that effect. ( QOOD old F.S.," true A ND from the standpoint of editorial effectiveness that sort of fixation has obvious virtues. For there were never any doubts in the mind of the editor, there were no shades or shadows, every thing was clear cut and simple, all black or all white, all good or all bad, and that was that. In the search for truth such a line ends in frustration. But such a search seldom concerns the average newspaper reader. Mr. "A.R." prefers to take his editorials if he takes them at all, straight, without chaser. "IXf HICH brings us to the one point where we un TT doubtedly agreed with the "retiring" editor of the "Courier" and where he might even agree with us, namely: the saying accredited to Voltaire that, quote : "I disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it." That "defending to strong and melodramatic no reasonable doubt that any agreement between was rare enough to deserve classification under the familiar heading of man ine oniy auierence enraged, apoplectic and preoccupied by these differ ences, than "R.W.R." and so gave them more space In fact the undersigned, as indicated above, failed to take the "slings and arrows" from the somewhat choleric scribe to the north too seriously, missed few of them, and genuinely enjoyed many of them. We fear it is going to out them and if "F.S. should return to editorial writ ing elsewhere, we feel quite sure that for somewhat different reasons, he will miss the Medford Mail Tribune. R.W.R. Student Pilot Dies In Bend (U.PJ A 46-year-old Douglas county student pilot was killed yesterday evening when his plane crashed near Burns just short of the Hampton fly ing strip, state police reported. The victim was identified as James E. Carrell of Riddle, who Tuesday. March 19. 1957 were either "blatheiskites" jump in the lake or words to form as always! either self-analysis or a the death" might be a bit in this case, but there can be during the Streeter decade, the two papers editorially bites dog." was mat "x.a." was more be a bit flat and stale with Crash Near Burns operated a sand and gravel plant in the southern Douglas county town. He left Roseburg for ranch late yesterday and refuel ed here in the evening, leaving for Burns at 5:45 p.m. Carrell was taking his last cross-country flight before tak ing his finale xamination. Renewed Hope for Negotiations Seen in Peace for Cyprus Issue By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correipondent There seems good reason for hope that new negotiations may be started soon for a solution y. L-l J1 iai of the Cvnrus problem. The Greek Cypriot Islanders who are fig h t i n g B r i t ish rule have offered to declare a truce. British g o v e rnment r e a c tion has been favor- Charles McCann able. The No. 1 British condition for a resumption of negotiations is that the rebels stop their cam paign of terrorism. Whether it will be possible, under the best conditions, to find a permanent settlement of the complicated Cyprus situation is another thing. Greek islanders started a cam paign of assassination, ambushes, bombings and sabotage two years ago. They demanded that Britain grant Cypriots the right of "self determination," which meant that they wanted Britain to hand the island over to Greece. Turkey Backs Britons Britain refused and was sup ported by Turkey, which ruled Cyprus for centuries before the British took it over in 1878. The campaign of violence in tensified. Archbishop Makarios, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus, became the political leader of the self- de termination" campaign. Matter of Fact LAST CHANCE London The Bermuda meet ing between President Eisenhow er and Prime Minister Harold M a c m illian looks like just about the last c h a nee to re build the ciumbl ing foundations of the West era Alliance. "What will they do about Gaza?" every- Joseph Alsop one will no doubt be asking. But that will not be the real ques tion. For this Bermuda meeting is not an international gathering of the common sort, at which statement gather in the 'sun, wrestle briefly with the crisis of of the moment, effusively assure one another of their mutual af fection and part again after is suing a smooth and empty com munique. Or rather, if Bermuda turns out to be this sort of rally, it will be remembered as ' the last chance that was missed. What has to be done to miss the chance? The answer is sim ple. Detailed and practical agre ements must be reached concern ing the long-term policies of America and Britain in certain critical areas. Of these areas, the Middle East is now im measurably the most important. But NATO is another policy area made urgent by Britain's plan ned reduc tion of her troop strength in Germany. And there are one or two more. ... A ND why will the last chance probably be lost, if detailed, long-term approaches to these knotty and complex problems are not agreed upon at Bermuda? Again the answer is relatively simple. The ancient Anglo-Amer ican partnership has already fal len upon such evil days, that another failure to reach real agreement will simply impose too heavy a strain. Of course there will be no open, rapid rupture, if Bermuda merely ends in another meaning less and amiable statement by the two chief conferees. But if this is the only result of Ber muda, the festering feelings of the British will grow still more poisonous. The ugly stories that are everywhere repeated here will be repeated and believed still more widely. And thus the already marked drift away from the old partnership will be ac celerated to the point where it can hardly be halted and re versed. That is the danger one finds beneath London's smiling and outwardly prosperous surface. In part, feelings fester here be cause the terrible failure at Suez marked an equally terrible turn ing point in the thinking of many intelligent and courageous Eng lish people. Against heavy odds, for nearly 12 years after the sec ond world war's end, they car ried on the struggle to maintain Britain's role as a great world power. But after the Suez fail ure, they have just about aband oned hope. "We've been a great power for a very long time, one of them told me. "But now we know we aren't a great power any longer, and we must find a new course. ... TY NO means all of those who - have reached this bitter con clusion have also turned against the Anglo-American partnership. But there are some, even of the best, who have turned against it some whose names, if they could be publicly used, would send a thrill of cold horror down the spines of those in Washing ton who still care about the fu ture of the Western Alliance. Britain charged that Makarios also was implicated directly in the terrorism. On March 9, 1956, Makarios was arrested and deported to the , Seychelles Is lands in the Indian Ocean. British forces under Field Marshal Sir John Harding, com mander in chief and governor of Cyprus, have pressed a deter mined drive against the small but well-organized and bold group of extremists who are responsible for the terrorism. In recent months, the extrem ists have suffered some punish ing blows. A number of their leaders have been captured or killed. On March 3, Gregoris Afxention, second in command of the rebels, was killed in his mountain hideout. A Cease Fire Offer Last Thursday the rebel or ganization, called "EOKA," an nounced that it would cease fire immediately if Makarios were freed. The British government show ed great interest in the offer, as did Field Marshal Harding. The cease fire offer is now under consideration by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his cabinet. There are indications that Britain might take Makarios to London not to Cyprus to see if there is a possibility of fruit ful negotiations. Britain is willing to grant Cyprus home rule. But it is not prepared to give up the island. especially because it has become an important Middle Eastern de fense base By Joseph Alsop I One such, a much respected sen ior English leader with close American connections, a man who bitterly criticized Sir Anth ony Eden's venture, told this re porter in plain terms: "I thought we were fools to do what we did at Suez. But now that it's all over, I've been wond ering about our relations with America. For instance, I've been asking myself whether your air bases here are of any use to us, whether in fact they serve any purpose except to make us H bomb targets if a war comes. Perhaps we should now con sider a Nehru-like policy of be ing nice to everybody." The man who spoke those words will, I think, finally re consider them. But that will not matter if the present drift continues, if there are more and more causes of Anglo-American disagreement, and if feelings are more 'and more inflamed there by. If this happens, here in Brit ain, the wise and the prudent will eventually be overborne by the hot-headed and the self-deluding. Then the partnership will end. LEST anyone think that these warnings are overdrawn, it can be rather positively stated that the American Embassy in London has been sending very grave warnings to the State Department. Indeed, it is an open secret that the new Ambassador, John Hay Whitney, was deeply shocked by the. state of feelings he found here. It may well be said, of course, that the United States is better able than Britain to do without the Anglo-American partnership and the Western Alliance. But if that is what the Eisenhower administration has in mind, then it is the Administration's duty to come up with a new American world strategy, not based on the Western Alliance, and including such unpalatable items as a 100 per cent self containted defense system for our continent. (c) 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. ATTENTION FLORENCE C. Marine City, Mich. (U.R Conservation officials said today they think a deer which swam across the St. Clair river four times Monday set some sort of endurance record for swimming deer. The officers said the deer swam over from the Canadian shore but was frightened away by spectators and swam back. Later the same deer swam over a sec ond time and was frightened back again. Free Lecture on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Medford, Entitled "Christian Science: Practical Christianity Revealed and Demonstrated" by Clifford R. Nysewander, of Indianapolis, Indiana Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts f Tonight, March 19, 1957 8 p.m. Medford Senior High School Auditorium It is open to the public. No charge is made, no money is solicited at a Christian Science Lecture Turkey says firmly that if Britain ever gives up Cyprus, the island must revert to Turk ish rule. It is only a little more than 40 miles from the Turkish mainland, and it is about 660 miles from Greece. Greece, in cidentally, never has ruled Cy prus,, though about 400,000 of the 500,000 islanders are of Greek racial stock. The remain ing 100,000 are Turks. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Interesting little item: ' West Germany's share of world trade both imports and exports increased from 4.1 per cent in 1950 to 7.3 per cent in 1956. During the same period. West Germany's share of world ex ports increased from 3.6 per cent to 7.9 per cent. THAT is to say: In six vaars aftpr ffettinff back on her feet following the war West Germany nearly doub led her share of total world trade (both imports and exports.) She MORE THAN DOUBLED her share of world exports (meaning what she sold to the world) in this same period of time. HOW come? Well, when she lost the war she shrugged off her debts. Having lost the war, she no long er needed huge armaments. So- even allowing for the fact that she has had to help support al lied troops on her soil her taxes have been relatively low. Not having to add a staggering burden to taxes to her prices, she has been able to keep her costs of production down, which has enabled her to outbid her competitors in world markets and GET THE BUSINESS. WOULDN'T it be wonderful if Russia would look the Ger man situation over and come to the conclusion that world con quest DOESN'T PAY? In that event, we could have a peaceful world. HO! HUM! Here's morp tn think about: ,A 24,000 CARAT emerald is on its way from Johannesburg in South Africa for evaluation by a jeweler in New York. The huge gem's owners say it has been priced in Johannesburg at anything from "almost worth less" to "perhaps worth MIL LIONS of pounds." (A British pound is the approximate equ ivalent of $2.80 in American money.) the doubt about the value That, too, is an interesting story. In the modern world, it would be hard to find anybody willing (and able) to pungle up the as tronomic price that would be commanded by a jewel of that staggering size. THE number of that kind of people in the world is be coming small. I recon King Saud could wang le it if he tok a notion to. His income is estimated at s o m e where in the neighborhood of 300 million dollars a year and since he is "the works" in his country of Saudi Arabia he doesn't have to pay any taxes. But his inclination doesn't seem to lean in that direction. He'd probably rather have an other hundred solid gold Cadil- dacs. There may be a few ma- harajas left in Iindia who could dig up the dough, but even the maharajas are beginning to look at their hole cards. llfHAT about some rich Amer ' ican? Pooh! Pooh! Pooh! What American in this day and age could afford to put mil lions of pounds of capital into a huge emerald just to look at? In modern America, capital has to be put to work to earn the money to PAY TAXES with. So that's out. I suppose they'll just have to cut this huge stone up into little bits of stones that common, or dinary, everyday people who are the salt of the earth in this modern age can afford to buy. From Washington By Roscoe Drummond POLITICS AND FEDERAL SPENDING Washington In Washington today we are witnessing a monu mental, buck-passing hassle over the' size of the Eisenhower budg et $71.8 million for the coming year which must seem frustrat ingly confusing. Right now it is a kind of po litical merry-go-round which the politicians understand and which can only fool the voters if anybody. President Eisenhower has painted himself into a box of his own making. In permitting, even encouraging, Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey to urge Congress to make a substantial cut in a budget which the ad ministration described as the "best" it could devise, Mr. Eisen hower should have known that Congress would leap to trim an item the White House considers vital to national defense the economic aid program. Thus the President has given momentum to a budget cut he will greatly deplore or have to fight to the last trench to avert. BOTH sides are playing poli tics. House Democrats, normally eager to preserve the fullest Congressional authority over ap propriations, are resisting the Humphrey theory that Congress ought to do what he said the administration was unable to do. They pass it to the President. Mr. Eisenhower holds up his Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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 Humane Slaughter To the Editor: I am writing you about humane slaughter. Two major packers, the George A. Hormel Co. who anesthetize hogs by passing them through a car bon dioxide tunnel, and Oscar Mayer, who stun cattle with a captive bolt pistol, and a few other packers are the only ones in this country that I know of who give a humane death, with out suffering, to meat animals. Almost 7,000,000 animals are killed every working day in our slaughter houses and with the exception of those slaughtered by the above packers they all have a terrifying and cruel death. Knockers sometimes deliver a dozen blows with their heavy hammers before cattle are stunned into unconsciousness, often smashing their skulls and noses to a pulp and knocking out their eyes, causing absolutely unnecessary suffering and ter ror. They are all shackled with heavy chains around a hind leg, which sometimes breaks the leg if it is a heavy animal like a hog; they are then hoisted into the air and their throats cut and they are left hanging there, suf fering untold agony, to bleed to death. Sometimes hogs that haven't been stuck properly and are therefore slower to die are thrown into steam vats while still conscious, and sometimes the feet of smaller animals are cut off before they lose con sciousness and death releases them from their terrible suffer ing. Humane slaughter legislation would require that all livestock and poultry be rendered insen sible by mechanical, chemical or other means, to be rapid, effec tive and humane. Such legisla tion, when enforced, would save packers $50,000,000 annually, a loss they sustain through bruis ing and mutilating meat animals. Limited space will not permit full story here. Write to me for further details and how you can help with three short letters. This letter is being mailed to all important newspapers in all states to reach millions of Loya! Humane Christians to fight for Humane Legislation; to bombard Washington in powerful volume protests. Kindly cooperate all to gether now for positive results. We can win. Thank you. John Taylor, co Post Office Watervliet, N. Y. hand and says, "Who, me?" and gingerly tosses the ball back to the Democratically - controlled Congress. The President himself has never bid Congress to cut his budget and for a very good rea son, lie screened it and approv ed it; he will have to expound it and defend it. Should he fail to do so, he will be abdicating ex ecutive responsibility in the most serious manner. Mr. Eisenhower's position is by no means free of politics. He takes the popular public stance in favor of less federal spending in principle and then blandly tells the country through his press conference that if there is to be any solid reduction of spending Congress will have to abandon some of its programs veterans' benefits, farm relief, school construction, etc. lyHOSE programs are these? ' They are Mr. Eisenhower's programs. If he believes that it is more desirable for the coun try to reduce federal spending substantially than it is to carry out these programs, then it is his duty as President and as leader of his party, to ask Congress to cut back these programs. My judgment is that Mr. Eis enhower does not hold any such view, that he does not see his budget as over-taxing the econ omy and that he believes it more desirable to continue what he considers needed civilian pro grams than to cut the budget significantly. He is certainly not taking any step to develop a public opinion to the contrary. But it is obvious that the Pres ident wants to appear that it is Congress, not he, who is stand ing in the way of doing what would have to be done if there were to be a real slash in spend ing. THE objective fact, as pointed out by the McGraw-Hill econ omists, is that the proposed $71.8 billion budget places no greater burden on the economy than any budget in the last six years, be cause the economy has been growing. Per capita federal spending under this budget wouia oe aouui 940, ui more than last year. But per cap ita income rose nearly $80 last year. On top of this is our in creasing population in light of which, next year's federal expen ditures will be less per capita than in 1954, when federal spending was $4 billion lower. This is why the McGraw-Hill statement warns not against the size of this Eisenhower budget but against the prospect' of "steadily increasing budgets" which take 20 per cent or more of our national income and, in its judgment, deprive "private industry of the savings and re sources needed to expand and modernize producing facilities." Federal saving that will per mit tax reduction will be hard to come by. -It will require ei ther (1) A great easing of the cold war, or (2) Ingenious and still undiscovered economies in . defense or (3) A radical cutback in civilian programs. None of these is in sight. Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc. Mr. Insurance FRED BRENNAN Phone 2-4940 CLVB NOTES The Me club carried by, "Mr. Insurance." the other day was not used In col lecting insurance prem iums. (Our insured are happy to pay). Sure and it was Just Freddie O'Brennan and his Old Shillelagh headed for the St. Pat's party at the Sons of Erin Chowder and Marching Society. MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY
