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will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at
the Medford hotel.
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ciation. 40 YEARS AGO
March 31, 1917 (Saturday)
Three one-act plays are pre
sented by members of the Med
ford Center of the drama league
at St. Mark's hall.
A patriotic rally will be held
at the Presbyterian church Sun
day. What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct l in parlor; ter
an er elrht la excellent: five ar
six la food
1. Is the city of Naples on the
east or west coast of Italy?
2. Bible: "But when the ful
ness of time was come, God sent
forth" whose? son?
3. Pure sold is 14, 20, or 24
carats fine?
4. Tetanus is another name for
arthritis, diabetes, or lockjaw?
3. In England, what is a drug
store called? '
6. Was Gilbert Stuart a fam
ous artist, statesman, or writer?
7. Prof. Raphael Lemkin of
Duke University coined a new
word for the English language:
It was used in the indictment of
the 24 German war criminals
What is the word?
8. What is the sweetest fruit
grown in the U.S.?
9. Which President hanged
two men?
10. "He that loses his honesty
has nothing to" what?
Answers: 1. West coast. 2.
"His son." 3. Twenty-four. 4.
Lockjaw. 5. Chemist's shop. 6.
Artist. 7. Genocide (from the
ancient Greek word "genos"
meaning race or tribe, and the
Latin "cide" meaning killing).
8. The date. 9. Grorer Cleveland.
10. "lose." John Lyle.
More than two million persons
are employed in the nation's pub
lic eating places and the industry
ranks third in the number of
persons who are given steady
employment.
Vi'A'SSOCIATIOM
MAIL TRIBUNE
Is Dave Beck
The Oregonian declares
that "Dave Beck is through."
We grant he should be. And we have no doubt
that eventually he will be.
But we would question the Oregonian's present
tense. As of today our belief is that the doughty, burly
and resourceful "Dave" has only started to fight.
And no one who knows him and his record
questions his fighting ability.
There is even less question about his resources.
Not only is he a millionaire in his own right, but he
has, as recently demonstrated, many millions at his
command, and not only those of his teamsters union,
but he has extremely cordial relations with certain
Big Banks and Big Business.
Sears-Roebuck is not the only multi-million dol
lar corporation that granted special favors to the
"teamsters." The record will show the Ford company,
General Motors and Montgomery Ward also on the
list. With the sensational growth of the teamsters
union, and the increased importance of "trucking"
in the national economy, none of the "Big Boys"
wanted to tangle with the "Big Boss" of the I.T.U.
And as the evidence to date indicates, there is little
doubt they were willing to pay a price for it.
QF COURSE the action of AFL-CIO in suspending
Beck and demanding his trial on charges of mis
handling union funds will be a blow to the Seattle
Boss. But we predict far from a fatal one.
Other unions and their leaders have suffered a
similar "disciplinary action" and have survived. All
but one of them we believe remaining in the AFL
CIO fold. Under Beck's strong and skillful direction
the teamsters may do the same.
In fact there is the crux of the present situation,
whether the rank and file of the teamsters will re
pudiate Beck or stand by him. There is no question
what they should do, for their own sake, that of
union labor as a whole, as well as the welfare of the
country.
But what they WILL do remains to be seen.
THE main trouble as we see it, is the fact that the
1 teamsters union is a sort of "race apart," a very
clannish and scrappy organizaiton, rather like an
army of over a million men, with a lot of pride in their
outfit, proud of what they have done for IT, even
more proud of what it has done for THEM, and up
to the time of this "exposure" extremely loyal to the
Big Boss and to all his men.
His "men" in this case have been not only the
teamsters "chiefs of staff," but all officers including
the "non-coms," from corporal up to the five-star
general, the "Big Chief" himself.
THERE is a formidable group. And if that loyalty
A continues then to get rid of Dave Beck will take
more than suspension from the AFL-CIO, more we
fear than an Internal Revenue indictment, it will
take an uprising, a mutiny in the teamsters ranks.
And for a mutiny to be successful requires a
strong, fearless and skillful leader. WHERE is there
such a leader? We hope one is found.
But until one is found, while we don't deny Dave
Beck is "on the way out," we think it foolish to
kid ourselves that it won't take a long time and a
lot of fighting before he gets there. R.W.R.
The Tax Revolt
We liked what President Eisenhower had to say
about the present uprising against his record-breaking
budget.
He did not deny some small reductions might
be made but he did maintain that the budget AS A
WHOLE, represented the necessary demands of this
growing democracy, so it may play its proper part in
domestic and world affairs.
That, we believe, is true.
Seventy-one billion-plus is a huge sum, but this
is a huge country, and its demands as a leader of
the free democracies of the world, financially speak
ing and otherwise, is even "huger."
We don't deny the President's claim that the
budget was the result of exhaustive study and intelli
gent examination, and we shall be much suprised if
in spite of the Byrds and the Hoovers, there will
be any drastic reductions made, when the budget
reaches final passage.
TOR some weeks reports have been coming over
the wire from Washington that "business men"
are overwhelmingly opposed to the Eisenhower
budget and not in '.he memory of most legislators
has there been so violent an uproar against a Re
publican administration's spending program. "
The American people dote on extremes and this
reported avalanche of protest is probably based on
fact.
DUT there are other facts to consider. And one of
thera is a survey conducted by the "Opinion Re
search Corporation" .which was hired by the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, an organization which can
hardly be accused of a "spend, spend and tax, tax"
phobia !
And what are the conclusions of the US C of C?
Here are some of them, quote:
"Businessmen 'fail to see the connection between na
tional legislation and their own welfare.'
"The budget debate is healthy and needed, but it is being
increasingly obscured by misleading cleaims if not down
right nonsense."
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"AS JUST one illustration, some of the most vocal
against the massive budget are businessmen in
the steel, oil, railroad, trucking industries.
"But the price hikes put through or on schedule
in these industries alone will tend to RAISE the
Sunday. March 31, 1957
"Through"?
with impressive finality
Senate Racket Probe
Getting to Heart of
Matter Writer Says
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Corespondent
Washington The Senate La
bor - Management Racketeering
Committee has its teeth clamped
firmly into the meat of the prob
lem it set out to investigate
most observers became convinc
ed here this past week.
This happened when the com
mittee veered away from the
gamey subject of Portland "call
girls" and dug deeply into the
financial maze of the head of
the country's largest labor un
ion. Teamster President Dave
Beck.
The Portland hearings were
useful in themselves to demon
strate the ready use Teamster
officials have made of local
racketeers in the Pacific North
west for personal gain, and how
they offered financial backing
to law enforcement officials on
condition that certain illegal ac
tivities in which they had an
interest would be shielded. This
was pretty largely an exposure
operation by the Senate commit
tee, designed to give the watch
ing nation an education in "how
it's done in the rackets" and to
help out honest local law en
forcement officials who had pre
viously been handicapped in tak
ing effective criminal action
where it was warranted.
To Heart of Matter
But since congressional inves
tigations are generally justified
on the premise that federal leg
islation may result from the find
ings, the committee went to the
heart of the matter this past
week in tracing the alleged mis
appropriation by Dave Beck of
vast sums of Teamster funds,
the dues of John C. Truckdriver.
Even assuming Beck has re
paid the union, the $300,000 to
$400,000 he used for personal
advantage, the committee has
shown the easy financial virtue
of top Teamster officials who
have millions of dollars at their
command from the dues of their
1,500,000 -member organization.
budget beyond even where it is! The Defense De
partment is a major buyer of industrial goods. Every
penny hike in industrial prices, every boost in trans
portation costs will add to the defense load. This
Congress could slash the budget by more than a bil
lion and still the actions of businessmen could more
than erase the saving.
"If businessmen are as upset about this budget as
the headlines say, they might find it wholesome to
weigh the implications of this survey of themselves
by their own Chamber. And they might find it even
more wholesome to stop talking fanciful budget
froth to each other and start grappling with the facts
of finance in '57."
CONSIDERING the source that is surely a devastat-
ing indictment of those leaders of the "business
world" who are flooding Washington with propa
ganda, demanding billions be sliced from the cur
rent budget and as a result they be favored with a
radical reduction in taxes.
If the U.S. Chamber of Commerce can question
the soundness of that 'protest and justification of the
so-called businessmen's revolt, it must be a question
able one indeed.
We would agree with another comment on this
report, namely, quote:
"According to their own remarks, a large percentage of
businessmen who do have ideas about legislation, would
when it comes down to cases, tolerate no reductions in con
struction of public works, new and better highways or aids
both to education and the farmers."
In other words they do make a big howl about
taxes but when it comes to doing what will have to
be done to reduce them they are exceedingly back
ward about coming forward.
It all goes back to the old and in this depart
ment, familiar saying "It all depends upon whose
ox is gored."
There undoubtedly is a country-wide revolt
against high taxes and increased federal expendi
tures particularly in foreign fields, but when the
chips are down a surprisingly small number of the
"protesters" will demand any reductions in the ex
penditures which will benefit their states and com
munities and therefore, themselves. R.W.R.
April
We have been caught on this one three times be
fore in 1954, 1955 and 1956. But if you are one of
those still believing that tomorrow (April 1) your
federal gasoline tax is going to drop back to IV2
cents a gallon, as the law says at the moment, or are
gleefully contemplating cheaper liquor, made possi
ble by a cut of almost 14 per cent in the tax:
Wake up, John Taxpayer! Congress raised the
gasoline tax last year from 2 cents to 3 cents a gallon,
raised other highway users' taxes, and earmarked
the whole package for the next 16 years to pay for
the new highway program.
Wake up again, John! Even the distillers aren't
arguing very loudly for a cut in the tax on liquor
from $10.50 to $9 a gallon when the government is
planning to spend nearly $72 billion next fiscal year.
Wake up again. The federal tax on that pack of
cigarettes is going to stay at 8 cents not fall to
seven cents a pack. And the tax on beer is still go
ing to be S9, not $8, a barrel.
So wake up, taxpayers and in words of the
old refrain: "April First is past, you're the biggest
fool at last" E.R.R.
Whether it be the general ac
counts of the unions or their
welfare funds, these resources
are now reaching gigantic pro
portions which represent power
ful temptations to officials who
feel little of the moral responsi
bility that goes with this trust.
May Use Case
The committee may or may
not find a duplication of Beck's
abuse in other labor unions, but
Congress is likely to use the
Beck case to generalize about the
need for new laws to protect
dues paying union members
against hidden misappropriation
of these resources. .
Congress has before it a bill
to require unions to disclose
fully the details of their welfare
funds. A number of labor leaders
have come out for this measure,
believing that labor cannot re
tain its effectiveness with the
public or with Congress unless
it shows clean hands.
What other legislation may
arise from the current investi
gation can only await time and
further disclosures. Surely one
result, which frightens labor, is
the prospect of the dirt the com
mittee is digging up being used
by anti-labor forces to smear or
ganized labor generally. At the
least, there will doubtless be
action by unions themselves
through such affiliates as the
Committee on Political Educa
tion, the labor backed group
which pumped considerable
sums into Democratic campaigns
in Oregon and Washington last
fall.
Historic Pattern
There is a historic pattern into
which the current labor investi
gation seems to fall. When the
Senate discovered banking
abuses which contributed to
many bank failures after the
1929 crash, Congress enacted the
Glass-Stengall act of 1933 which
provided individual depositers
with insurance to safeguard their
savings and gave the Federal
Reserve Board power to prevent
Fool
fACSttQi" Of FOCt By Stewart Alsop
AFTERMATH OF BECK
Washington The Teamsters
Union hearings on Capitol Hill
have been wonderful theater.
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BcK-tftuSft ss suspense, emo
tion, spicy rev
elations, comic
relief, and
above all a su
perb cast of
characters.
Dave Beck,
Teamster s'
stewait Alsop doss, nas Deen
brilliantly cast in the central
role. His pink pate positively
glittered with righteous indigna
tion and injured innocence as he
lunged arrogantly back at his
Senatorial tormentors, like a
snarling badger beset by a Ter
rier pack. Senator McClellan's
dry monotone had precisely the
proper "dragnet" intonation, as
he forced the infuriated Beck
again and again to take refuge
in the Fifth Amendment.
The supporting players were
equally well cast. Committee
counselRobert Kennedy, for ex
ample, has been fine as the
idealistic young crusader. Even
Senator McCarthy has done a
reasonably convincing imitation
of McCarthy, although the old,
familiar growl sounds, somehow,
like voice from the grave.
But, although a political re
porter these days often finds
himself poaching on the preserve
of the drama critic, the Beck
hearings have been more than
good theater. They have been
comparable in some ways to the
Pecora investigations in the last
year of Herbert Hoover's Presi
dency, which exposed the arro
gance and irresponsibility of an
important segment of big busi
ness, and set the backdrop of the
New Deal.
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rpHE Beck hearings are also
likely to have important con
sequences. One possible consequence was
suggested by Sen. Irving Ives of
New York, when he warned
Beck that the open shop for
union labor might be "the up
shot of what you are doing to
day." Already, some 18 states have
passed the so-called "right-to-work
laws" which gravely weak
en labor's bargaining position by
outlawing the union shop. Until
now, despite a concerted drive
by conservative interests (spear
headed by former Congressman
Fred Hartley of Taft-Hartley
fame) the unions have been
able to head off right-to-work
legislation in most of the im
portant industrial states.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
At a news conference in
Salem the other day, Governor
Holmes reiterated his support of
the so-called "key district" bill,
which proposes to change the
pattern of distribution of the
basic school fund in Oregon.
The objective of the bill, he
told the legislative correspond
ents is to "make the distribution
in such a manner that all kids in
poor districts will get the same
educational opportunity as the
kids in the rich districts."
T ET'G take a sharp look at this
" business of so distributing
the state's basic school support
money that "all kids in poor dis
tricts get the same educational
opportunity as the kids in the
rich districts."
TT IS probably true that in Ore
gon there are richer school
districts and there are poorer
school districts.
But
In general
These areas of inequality In
Oregon occur WITHIN COUN
TIES. TN MANY counties of Oregon,
as everyone knows, there are
school districts that have within
their borders a lot of valuable
timber, or some big railroads or
other public service corpora
tions, that produce a lot of tax
money. It often happens that in
these districts the school popu
lation is relatively small.
There are often other districts
that are not so well off. The
bulk of their area may consist
of property whose assessed
value is low. It may be that in
these districts the school popu
lation is relatively high.
But, personally, I can't believe
there are any COUNTIES in Ore
gon that are underprivileged and
poverty stricken. I am reason
ably certain there is no county
in Oregon whose people would
be willing to confess they are so
poor they are unable to educate
their children and have to have
help from other counties.
banks from making risky specu
lation loans.
After Congress probed the
electric utility industry and un
covered details of Sam Insult's
vast and abusive control of utili
ties from coast to coast, it passed
the Rayburn - Wheeler utilities
holding company act of 1935
which required utilities to re
port their finances to the Se
curities and Exchange Commis
sion and brought dissolution of
the Insull empire. The long
range benefits of these 20-year-old
laws, for the banks and utili
ties as well as the public, justi
fies the hope that today's head
lines about Dave Beck will her
ald tomorrow's acts of Congress
to the permanent benefit of la
bor and the country. . . .
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But after Beck's amazingly ar
rogant performance, it will be a
brave state legislator who will
dare" to vote against right-to-work
laws. There is also a real
chance that Federal right-to-work
legislation will pass this
Congress, in the form of an
amendment to the Civil Rights
Bill, if the bill reaches the floor.
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IN THE Beck-produced atmos
phere, such an amendment
might well pass. Again, if the
"clean elections" bill reaches
the floor, an amendment sharply
restricting all labor's political
activities will certainly be intro
duced, probably by Sen. Barry
Goldwater of Arizona". And
again, such an amendment
would have an excellent chance
of passing, thanks to Beck.
This suggests why the North
ern Democrats are almost as
worried by the Beck perform
ance as Beck's fellow labor
chieftains this despite the fact
that Beck and most of his co
horts have supported the Repub
licans. Republicans like to
charge that the Northern Demo
crats are supported by an im
mense slush fund provided by
the unions. Actually, under-the-table
money from labor for
Democratic candidates is a small
fraction of the political contri
butions of business, most of
which goes to Republicans.
BUT it is true that Democratic
candidates in many Northern
industrial states, notably Michi
gan, Wisconsin, and western
Pennsylvania, are greatly, and
in some cases wholly, dependent
on labor money and other help
from laborr Even without legis
lation to restrict labor's politi
cal activities, Democrats in such
areas will suffer.
They will be hurt because la
bor will be very cautious in the
political atmosphere created by
the Teamsters' investigation
about taking an active political
role. The Northern Democrats
will also be hurt simply because
they are identified in the pub
lic mind with union labor, just
as the Republicans are identified
with business.
Predictions are even being
heard on Capitol Hill that the
McClellan investigation, especi
ally if it continues to put on a
good show for months to come,
wUl cost the Democrats control
of the House in 1958. However
that may be, the arresting drama
on Capitol Hill is almost certain
to have f ar-reaching political
after-effects.
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Herald Tribune Inc.)
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The Bureaucratic Nightman
To the Editor: Most of us
would not recognize a thousand
dollar bill if it came a-tapping
at the front door.
' It would take a good sized
laundry basket to hold the thou
sand of those bills it takes to
make a million. And a thousand
of those baskets can you vis
ualize it? would mean a billion
dollars.
And yet, so casually, the
powers that be talk in terms of
billions for foreign aid while
wringing blood from un-foreign
taxpayers.
Why not read "Bureaucratic
Nightmare" in April Reader's
Digest and then think a bit on it?
E. B. M.
(Name on File)
Medford, Ore.
A Tip to Merchants
To the Editor: There are a
number of subscribers to the
Medford Mail Tribune that re
ceive the paper by mail.
We would like to remind the
merchants that when they ad
vertise special' sale items for
"one day only" we are seldom
able to take advantage of the
sale since we do not receive the
paper until the afternoon of the
sale if they advertise only one
day ahead.
Might we suggest the retail
merchant advertise one day
sales, two days ahead?
Helen Nelson,
Route 1, Box 75,
Applegate, Ore.
State Egg Law Favored
To the Editor: There has been
little publicity given to a bill
before the Oregon Legislature
which provides for the identifi
cation of Oregon produced eggs.
Present marketing methods of
eggs by quality and size desig
nations gives the consumer part
of the story of the eggs they are
buying. What they do not know
are such things as how old the
eggs are, whether or not they
have been carefully cooled, re
frigerated as a perishable food
should be, processed to lengthen
shelf . life, transported many
miles to market from some other
area where surplusses have made
it economically feasible to ship
them, etc.
House Bill 459 is one step in
the direction toward providing
the consumer -with a better
knowledge of the background of
the egg products they are buy
ing by telling them that the egg
was produced in the state. Stores
handling Oregon eggs can ' ad
vertise that fact. Stores can offer
other eggs at prices which more
nearly reflect their true value.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
If only the rain would let up
a bit, things could get going. '
Farmers have to hold off
planting crops because the
ground is too wet, and the time
has already passed when some
crops should have gone into the
ground.
The rain In the lower-ljrng
forests and snow at higher ele
vations (combined with the slack
lumber market, which is gradu
ally beginning to pick up) hr-ve
slowed down logging activity
The best part of the wet wea
ther is that the outlook for irri
gation water through the dry
season improves somewhat with
each downpour.
But enough is enough. Wea
therman, let's have some sun.
shine.'!
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On Feb. 21. 1927. the raj
leys' second-woril flood in his
tory (the worst was in 1890.
when much of Medford was
washed away) occurred. The
Southern Pacific (which in
those days must have lived up
to its designation of "friend
ly") purchased 200 copies of
the Mail Tribune, to be taken
to Gold Hill and Achu.j
, the pleasure of passengers on
two fraina vtuVk -.
n c i e mar
ooned by washouts on the rail
lines caused by the high wa
ter. The newspaper business. Is,
among other things, one of con
trasts. One of the area's leading busi
nessmen has a son who is a 4-H
member, and who recently was
named to write about the hap
peninings of his club for the pa
per. This he does, and credit
ably, too. Then he gets his fath
er to mail it to the paper for
him.
So, we receive a beautifully
printed business envelope, com
pleted with a dictated, perfectly
typed (on an electric typewriter)
letter from the father, inform
ing us that, herewith, is the re
port of the Such and Such 4-H
club. Enclosed is the report,
written out longhand in a shaky
youthful scrawl. Hooray for
them both.
A philosopher (jg) we know
' comes forth with the observa
tion, with reference to good
and evil influences, that when
one touches mud with a glove,
it is the glove that gets mud
dy not the mud that gets
glovey.
-.
A TV repairman was called to
a home, the story goes, and was
trying to locate trouble in the
homeowner's set. A 6-year-bld
boy stood by, watching the pro
cess with considerable fascina
tion. Finally he said:
"I'll bet if you'd clean out all
those dead cowboys from the
bottom of the set it would work
again."
This is the place where wa
feel free to scream and weep
about the typographical er
rors which.' despite the best
efforts of us all, creep insid
iously into the paper. One last
week recorded the fact that
Mr. and Mrs. So and So at
Such and Such a hospital bo
came the parents of a 10
pound box.
One of. the Gabor sisters (we
think it was Zsa Zsa) was quot
ed as turning down $100,000 to
shave her head because "One
Yul Brynner in Hollywood is
enough.
The reverse. Miss Gabor, is al
so true. One Gabor is enough, if
not too much, anywhere. And
look at the number we have to
put up with! No wonder the
name is pronounced with the ac
cent on the last syllable. '.
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Today, alas, is he last day
day of March. Times not only
flies, it scoots. And does any
. one still remember whether
or not the groundhog saw his
shadow Feb. 2, or whether
March came in like a lion or a
lamb? And does anyone care?
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A Salem newspaper reports,
the story about the man who was
marooned on a desert island dur
ing World War II and stayed
there for years, and therefore
had no way of knowing about
automobile tail-fins, Elvis Pres
ley and all the other items of
"progress'' we've seen come to
pass.
One day he was wandering on
the beach and found a Coca Cola
bottle washed up on the sand
a new, king-size one. He took
one look at it and started
screaming, "Help, I've Shrunk!"
Determination of egg quality
by candling is not an exact sci
ence and for this reason, toler
ances in grades are permitted
under the . present egg laws.
Border line cases are frequent
and generally favor the one who
does he candling. Flavor, fresh
ness, etc., are not measurable by
candling. We believe that locally
produced eggs are better than
those produced many, many
miles from the local market. It
is on this premise that the
shoppers will get more for their
money and better eggs if HB 459
is put into law. We know your
legislators wil appreciate your
comments on this matter.
Barry Brownell, '
Oregon City, Ore. .
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