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FOOT MEDFOHD (OREGON) KDTOKE UNE 'Kvcryene In Southern Oresoa Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-28 North fir St Phone i-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HIKB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC A 1 ,1 F.N JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor hahki CHXfMAM, Telegraph tailor RICHARD XEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON, Cireulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered u second elaa matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES H Uai)Tn Aivnem- Pr f.OCT IOC. Dally and Sunday One year 115 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos J2S Sunday only una year nu PIt Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The past week hold-ups slackened" (Metropolitan paper) They are talking about crime, not sus penders: 20 YEAQS AGO April 4, 1937 (Sunday) E." M. Hussong, high school instructor and amateur astron omer, reports seeing a huge meteor, headed north over the airport, Friday night. For the first time in two years .restaurant service becomes avail able again at the Medford muni cipal airport. 30 YEARS AGO April 4. 1927 (Monday) J. W. Kerr, president of Ore- eon Agricultural college, an nounces in Medford the college will change its name to Oregon State college. The Yellow Cab company, a national organization, will start operations i Mettfard May 1, C. E. Corn&il, eaa9er, an nounces. 40 YEASPAeO April 4. 1917 CVdnesday) Relatives here receive letter from Lvian Orton, who left Medfor sft January for France to serv im the American ambu lance srice. The fcalf block owned by the Souther Pacific, fronting on North ont st., probably will be mass into a park this spring by th Greater Medford club, accoriit Mayor Gates. Wbrs Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; sev en cr eight Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Was the relatively high con centration of iodine uptake in the thyroid gland known before the era of radioisotopes? 2. REA are the initials of which Government agency? 3. Bible: Was Luke, the evan gelist, a Gentile? 4. Is there any chemical dif ference between sugar produced from cane and that which is produced from beets? 5. A marimba is a bird, tropi cal vegetable, or musical instru ment? 6. The principal industry in Mexico is farming, livestock raising or mining? 7. Electrical storms are more frequent in summer than in winter; true or false 8. Briquettes are biscuits made by newlyweds, a kind of fuel, or a name for synthetic tires? 9. Was the term "isotope" in troduced in 1893, 1903, or 1913? 10. "Hope is the poor man's b d". Answers: 1. Yes. 2. Rural Elec trification Adminis t r a ti o n. 3. Yes. 4. No. 5. Musical instru ment 6. Mining. 7. True. 8. A kind of fueL 9. 1913. 10. "bread." MAIL TRIBUNE What About The Future? Last Sunday Senator Ives of New York predicted over the air, that the "case of Dave Beck" will put back the U.S. Labor movement a generation. Senator Ives fresh from the meeting of the Mc Clellan committee of which he is a member, can't be accused of any anti-labor bias, for his record is a liberal one, and his sympathy with organized labor, unquestioned. Therefore this dire prophecy came to many listen ers as something of a shock. rjUR potent and highly regarded contemporary, the Portland Oregonian, largely responsible 'for the Beck disclosures, has a different view. Taking the recent Democratic victories in Mich igan as an example, the Oregonian concludes edit orially, quote : "Actually, of course, it constitutes a gratuitous insult to the public to suggest that its opinion can be swayed indis criminately in the fashion charged by some of the critics of the Senate committee hearings. The individual members of the electorate are, for the most part, quite as able as their would-be mentors to separate the sheep from the goats. The legitimate political aims of organized labor will not suffer from a full disclosure of the operations of the racketeers in labor. In fact, it is labor itself that stands to reap the most direct benefit from the disclosures." Well, we believe the Oregonian has the better of the argument, but we feel that both prophets are jumping the gun somewhat. That is, we believe, it is too early in the game to predict with any assurance exactly what the net re sult of the Beck scandals will be. Moreover there is sure to be a double-barreled effect, which we fear has not been fully realized, namely, (1) the effect upon organized labor and (2) that on the Democratic party. They should not NECESSARILY, be the same. For example, if as at publicans should try to make political capital out of the Beck disclosures, by supporting legislation that would deny legitimate labor its proper rights in the realm of organization and self -betterment, they might very well succeed, because of the popular effect of the scandals unearthed in the teamsters union. But' such a reaction would almost certainly unite organ ized labor behind the Democratic party which, in spite of claims to the contrary, has never been 100 per cent the case. IN OTHER words such legislation might put organ- iff fA 1 o V r V o nir wi " v tt iTA o vri iiicu xauvji uav.n. many jrcaxo, uuo a u liic oamc timcy because of approximately a total rather than a par tial labor support, the Democrats might gain national control as well, as state controls, ' as indicated by recent election results, both in Michigan and Texas. This, of course, is all in the area of conjecture. But as we see it, such a development is "in the cards.". "THIS, however, is assuming that organized labor, as previously urged, "cleans its own house" and gets rid of the Becks, the Brewsters, the Sheff ermans, etc., etc., all down the line from A to Izzard and starts out again with a clean slate. u But if, by some mischance this should not happen, labor's Augean stables should find no Hercules, and the rule and "take" of the Big Bosses in the Teamsters (and elsewhere) should continue; then not only would organized labor be put back a generation or more, but the Grand Old Party, as the citadel of labor opposition would reap a rich harvest politically, and might well remain in power, nationally at least, for another eight years, perhaps longer. t IN OTHER words, at least as we see it, it all de- pends upon how things develop from now on, what happens. N The portly and . somewhat weather-beaten old pachyderm is already sharpening his tusks and wag ging its tail over the happy prospect of branding the "Dave Beck" symbol on Senator Neuberger and other Democrats when and if they choose to run for reelection. The only fly in that ointment, as has been pointed out by the Pendleton East Oregonian, is that the "Teamsters" never forgave our junior senator for favoring a bill at Salem that would have put heavier taxes on commercial truck lines. They did not sup port him over Senator Cordon and they never con tributed a penny to his campaign. It is not likely they would again. MOREOVER the Republicans can't have their cake and eat it too. After the recent presidential elec tion, they claimed that in most of the big industrial centers of the country where the labor vote controls, not only did General Eisenhower wan, but by tre mendous majorities. We believe that is true. It is also true that under normal conditions the labor vote refuses to go 100 per cent for either party. When the members mark their secret ballots most of them vote as they please, not as someone orders. But if these revelations of the "Portland mess" which started the chain-reaction in Washington are taken as an excuse for frontal attack onALL organ ized labor' in this country, the conditions will not be normal. In such an event we believe American labor would forget their internal differences, close ranks, and in the interest of self preservation, fight to the finish against any party seeking to destroy them. R.W.R. Thursday. April 4, 1957 present indicated, the Re Syrian, Jordanian Pro-Commie Elements Suffering Set-Back By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The pro-Communist elements which have been bidding for domination in Syria and Jordan appear to have suffered a set back. Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj in Syria, and Premier Sulei man Nabulsi in Jordan are be ing challenged by con serva- rharles McCann live ieaaers. In both countries, the situa tion still is confused. But there seems no doubt that for the moment at least pro-Western sentiment is strengthening. , For several months, Syria has been the most pro-Communist of the nine Arab countries. Serraj, chief of Syria's military intelli gence department, has been re garded as a potential dictator. Nabulsi also has pursued an increasingly pro-Communist and hence anti-Western policy. He is trying to set himself up as his country's strong man and to weaken anti-Communist King Hussein. Now President Shukri Al-Ku-watly of Syria has taken the nominal leadership of conserva tive elements who are trying to oust Serraj and if possible to compel him to take a post as military attache or some similar If ,rfffj Back Stairs: The White House Telephone By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press While House Writer Washington U.R) Back stairs at the White House: While President Eisenhower was in Bermuda recently, one of his most private telephones al most rang off the White House wall and the calls weren't for the President. The mixup occurred because one of Washington's newspapers ran an ad for a dog show seek ing helpers to handle the ca nines. The ad contained a tele phone number which purported to be the dog show's but which, because of a typographical error, actually was the highly secret White House number. After many wrong calls, the Secret Service stepped in and had the White House number changed. If you want to call the White House, you don't need a ' secret number. You can reach the White House switchboard by casing National 8-1414 in Wash ington. And if a lady answers, don't hang up. She is a highly trained operator who knows how to separate the screwballs from the legitimate callers. The President plans to spend part of the late summer in Col orado. This was where he suf- Hungarian Refugee Program To Cease Washington (U.R) Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.), pre dicted today the government will call a halt to its Hungarian refu gee program in the next two weeks. Walter, head of the House Immigration subcommittee, re cently asked Atty; Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr to stop admitting Hungarian refugees to this coun try. "In my opinion, the program will be closed down and the only ones admitted will be members of families who were separated" Walter told the United Press. About 30,000 Hungarians have been 'brought to this country since the revolt against the Communist government was sup pressed by Soviet troops last October. Walter has been critical of the security screening given the ref ugees. Korea Plans To Erect Statue of MacArlhur Seoul, Korea (U.R) Korea plans to erect a statute of Gen. Douglas MacArthur for his de fense of the country against in vasion by Communist North Korea, it was reported today. Officials of the Home Minis try said they hoped to complete the project before Sept. 15, the day when MacArthur carried put the Inchon landing which was the start of the counter-offensive that threw the Reds out of the Republic of Korea. Iron Curtain Express its Passenger Train Kassel, Germany . (U.R) The Allied Forces famed "Iron Curtain Express" from Berlin crashed into another passenger train early today shortly after crossing the East-West frontier into West Germany. West German Federal railway officials said four Germans were killed and 14 injured on the civ ilian train. No casualties were reported on the military train. The military express crosses East Germany every night car rying troops and mail from West Berlin. post in a foreign country. But the actual challenge to Serraj comes from conservatives in the army. They are showing unexpected strength. In Jordan, young King Hus sein is leading the opposition to Nabulsi. He, too, has the sup port of army conservatives as well as of conservative politic ians. The Eisenhower Doctrine seems to have had a good deal to do with the altered situation in both Syria and Jordan. And King Saud of Saudi Ara bia also appears to be playing an important part. Lost No Time There seems every reason to believe that Saud went home from his recent visit to Presi dent Eisenhower with a most Editorial Comment ROGUE FLOOD CONTROL In December, 1955 the Rogue river really lived up to its name. It went on a rampage which caused great destruction espe cially in the Grants Pass area. The Courier reports that the es timate of damage made by the corps of engineers ran in excess of $4,000,000. The engineers are now making a survey of the whole area to determine the most feasible method of halting floods. . Previously the reclamation bu fered bis 1955 heart attack, but his doctors now say that the mile-high altitude of Denver should pose no problem for the chief executive. When Mr. Eisenhower was in Bermuda, he was thinking of his grandchildren. The . British shops abounded in small metal soldiers, and the President, un able to leave his headquarters at the Midocean Club, commis sioned a staff assistant to do his purchasing for iha, children. But instead of giving his set of handsome lead soldiers to his grandchildren, the President de cided to hold the stauettes for some later purpose. As a result, when the cabinet meets these days, the lead sol diers, representing a broad span of American military service, stand on the broad cabinet table. During the furore about the President's speedy auto trip to Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Dallas, Tex. Ralph Yarborough, Democratic senator-elect, on seeking an increase in the income tax exemption when he gets to Washington: "I shall be the exemption's biggest spokesman in Washing ton." New York Former President Truman on his plans: "I don't know myself where I'll be from week to week." Washington William C. Doherty, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, on Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield's warning of a cut in postal service: "People will get poor service. This is compounding, not solv ing the problem." New York Frank A. Daniels, general manager of the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer and Times and chairman of the American Newspaper Publishers Association Postal Committee, criticising a proposed postal rate increase for newspapers with over-5,000 press runs: "Such classification plays into the hands of those who want government to classify the press by law or penalties or preferment. It is a threat to our free press." Legislature Salem (U.R) A proposal for a Columbia Basin Interstate Compact was aired before the Senate Natural Resources com mittee Wednesday night. The compact would see North west states make recommenda tions on proposed federal pro jects, operate the Northwest power pool and recommend al location of power and water re sources. Salem (U.R) The Senate returned to committee a House passed measure aimed at giving occasional anglers in Oregon a chance to fish for $1 a day. At present non-resident vacationing fishermen are required to take out at least a $5 license for sev en straight days of fishing. Salem (U.R) A Senate sub committee was told that state salaries should be set at the "pre vailing rate" in various labor market areas of Oregon to halt the current high rate of person nel turnover. James Daniel, executive sec retary of the Oregon State Em ployees association, favored the proposal before a Joint Ways and Means committee subcom mittee. Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate unanimously passed Sen ate joint memorial 5, calling on Congress for immediate author- STUCK WITH STICKER Chattanooga, Tenn. U.R) The City Council voted to refund $5 to the 15-year-old writer of the following letter: "I bought a $5 city sticker for an old car I wanted to rebuild and use. I never got the car to run. I never took the sticker out of the envelope. I need the $5 very badly." favorable view of the Eisenhow er Doctrine. It also is indicated that he lost feo time in' giving his view to leaders of other Arab countries. It also is possible that the re cent decision of the United States to join the military com mittee of the Baghdad Pact has played a part in checking the pro-Communist trend in Syria and Jordan. Both the Baghdad Pact and the Eisenhower Doctrine are aimed against Communist pene tration by subversion or aggres sion, in the Middle East. It may take some time for the situations in Syria and Jor dan to solidify. But it could well be that what threatened to be a dangerous pro Communist trend will be stopped. reau conducted extensive sur veys and came up with plans for nultiple development of the Rogue River basin. They were dropped in the face of sportsmen opposition. , ' The experience of the 1955 flood ought to constrain all par ties to agree on some practical plan to prevent floods and yield benefit in the way of water for irrigation and hydroelectric pow er and still protect fish runs. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Gettysburg last week end, White House reporters got a number of telephone calls from house holders along the Rockville, Md., pike, saying they were glad that someone had brought the Presi dent's speeding to public atten tion. Most of the callers refused to give their names on the theory that they did not want trouble with the government. The truth is that they would have had no trouble. The county police outside Rockville who elected to cut out the press cars trailing the Presi dent tt Gettysburg at a high rate of speed probably wish today that they had never spotted the press cars. As one of the officers said later, "I never would have be lieved that one small whistle to a car full of reporters would have ended up with me in a lot of newspaper editorial columns." Briefs izatipn and federal construction of Bully Creek dam and reser voir in Malheur county. Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate unanimously passed Sen ate bill 411 providing that school authorities could excuse students from absence in cases of emergency or UDbn written request of the parents. The Therapy of "FRIENDS" When the going gets a little rough, how many times have you, yourself, either said or heard, "I just don't know what I'd have done if it hadn't been for my friends. Everyone's been so kind, and it certainly has made things much easier to take." At no time is this more evident, or expressed Oftener than in a time of bereavement. That is when friendship has a healing quality that is both needed and appreciated. It is a source of utmost satisfaction to us to know that at such times we have been able to establish lasting friendships with those whom we have served. To make a friend, one has to be a friend DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass ' FUNERAL DIRECTORS Matter of Fact THE DULLES WHITE PAPER: II Washington Exhibit A in the forthcoming inquiry into American Policy in the Middle iijoi.i i Mui.jajM East ought to 1 V,a a n our Vl nn 1- about Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles by John Robin son B e a 1 of Time maga zine. The book stewut Alsop contains a long and passionate defense of the Dulles consciously brought on and according to the author it "benefits from personal inter views with (Dulles) which have provided insight into his official actions." In short, it is a kind of White Paper, or lawyer's brief, for the Dulles policies, based on facts and Interpretations sup plied in large part by Dulles himself. As such it is a fascinating document. A previous report has described how Beal reveals that Dules Consciously brought on the Middle Eastern crisis by withdrawing the American offer to aid in building the Aswan Dam in the most brutal and in sulting way possible. The rest of the Middle Eastern section of the book is designed to prove that, in thus forcing a Middle Eastern showdown, Dulles brought off successfully "a truly major gambit in the cold war," greatly to the benefit of the United States. "DECAUSE of the evident au thority with' ' which Beal writes, this thesis deserves fur ther scrutiny. The Beal, or per haps Dulles-Beal, version of the crisis may be summarized as fol lows: Egypt's Colonel Nasser react ed violently to the calculated slap in the face, as Dulles had expected. He nationalized the Suez Canal, and thus "precipi tated the sharpest crisis the Western Powers had faced in the Middle East, and before it was over produced a tremen dously shocking split among the Western Powers themselves." The split occurred because the British, after much "waver ing", joined the French in' a "plot which the French had al ready cooked up with the Israe li." In so doing, Dulles' opposite number, British Foreign Minis ter Selwyn Lloyd, consciously "misled" the American govern ment. The "Israeli-French-Brit-ish plot to seize the canal" made President Eisenhower "angry clear through." Throughout the crisis, however, Dulles followed a "consistent and purposeful" policy. "Facing a weak and mis guided neutral, Dulles believed that the best course was to swing moral opinion to bear on him and show him, if possible, in what way he was misguided. Despite British-French rejection of this theory, the Dulles method prevailed in the end." The Dulles method prevailed because he "wielded the influence of the United States so vigorously that fighting was stopped within a week. This was 'waging peace' with genuine skill." rpHUS the end result of the -- Dulles - forced Middle East showdown was a big net plus for the United States. It created "a completely new understand ing of motives in 'neutral' parts of the world which added im mensely to the stature of the United States as moral leader in the fight for peace." This is a remarkably hopeful version of the crisis, but there appear to be a couple of gaps in it. In the first place, the British decision to join the "plot" may have been an act of folly, but it was not an act of insanity. The British became convinced, with reason, that the Dulles policy, however "moral" and "consis tent and purposeful," would not prevent the violently hostile Nasser from, gaining total con By Stewart Alsop trol of the canal a prospect they regarded, also with reason, as intolerable. The intolerable prospect is now a reality. From here on out, the Western Europeans will have to get used to the unhappy feel ing of Nasser's knife at their economic throats. If Nasser has been shown "in what way he was misguided," he gives no signs of it. Indeed, from his point of view, his policy has not been misquided at all, but tri umphantly successful. TlfOREOVER, the Beal brief for Dulles leaves the real key question unanswered. Why was the "influence of the United States" wielded in such a way that Nasser was relieved of all pressure from Britain, France, and Israel, while at the same time no American influence of any sort was brought to bear on Nasser for a commitment on the canal or anything else? Give Secretary Dulles all due credit for energy and perspicaci ty, and our Allies all due blame for folly. Until the key question is answered, it will be hard to accept the theory that Dulles' decision to force a Middle East ern showdown was really quite the brilliant diplomatic gambit his biographer claims for him. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must 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 rieht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Conservation Trip ,- To the Editor: The Medford League of Women Voters are going on a field trip this Sat urday, April 6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This trip is to build background on the national item, "Conserva tion: a study of our water re sources" and to help them gain knowledge of the general water picture from the local viewpoint. Saturday's trip, planned and conducted by Clem Ault of the United States Soil Conservation service, has been designed to acquaint participants with ex isting conditions in the Jackson County watershed in relation to conservation of soil and water. The Medford League appreci ates this opportunity of acquaint ine vallev residents with their many studies and invite interested persons to participate in this "go see" trip. For further miormauon call Mrs. R. D. Hiatt, 3-3118 or myself, 2-7684. Mrs. Charles W. Crary Andover Dr., Cherry Hts. . Medford, Ore. President Defends Disability Plan Washington j(U.R) President Eisenhower said Wednesday his plan for dealing with disabled presidents is based on the as sumption that it would be car ried out by honest men who would not misuse it to try to seize power. Mr. Eisenhower, defending the plan at his news conference, said he felt the American people would "resent ery bitterly" any attempt to misuse his proposal. The President has recom mended to Congress a constitu tional amendment to allow a president to declare his own dis ability and to hand over his pow ers temporarily to the vice pres ident. If the president were too ill to make the decision himself, the cabinet would. The plan has run into stiff con gressional opposition especially the section investigating the cabinet with the right to declare a president unable to carry on with his duties. Some influential congressmen predict it' will be defeated.
