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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ME&FOfi&tliTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-28 North fir St. Phone 2-611 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Buiineu Manager ERIC A 1. 1 .en JR. Managing Editor EARL U ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second clan matter at Msdiord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance- Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year (15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medtord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent end on motor routes' Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official laper of Jackson County United Presa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C N ATION A . EDITORlAi sTbcfA'ICN hjiihui.'U.mct NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YBABS AGO April 9, 1947 (Wednesday) Emmett W Beeson is appointed veterans agricultural agent for Jackson county succeeding Ray mond Duncan. From Arthur Perry's Ye Bmudge Pot column: Several Valley epicureans report they have successfully braved the dangers of a skillet full of wild mushrooms, they picked them selves. SO YEARS AGO April 9. 1937 (Friday) The Medford Corporation plans to start its sawmill next Thursday or Friday, according to General Manager James ti. Owen. A total of 1,300 city school pupils took tuberculin test re cently, according to Dr. C. I. Drummond, county physician. 30 YEARS AGO April 9, 1927 (Saturday) C. C. Hoover shipped two more cars of dairy cattle to Hugh Clark of Fresno this week and ill ship another car Monday. The Greater Medford club this week is sponsoring a Better Homes Week. 4EB YEARS AGO April 9, 1917 (Monday) ilayor C. E. Gates, who re cently purchased three resident ts on West Main st., has Arch itect Clark at work on plans and specifications for the erection m a bungalow on each of the 3ss. Srom Local and Personal col (JSnn: Fourth car load of copper (r to be shipped to smelter at 'Tacoma passes through Medford from Jacksonville with about JS?,000 pounds of ore. What's Your I.Q.? 'lne or ten correct Is superior; sev en er eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Was the one-cent postal card first used in the U.S. in 1863, 1873, or 1883? 2. What calling was. pursued in common by the following: Edward Teach, Captain Kidd, Mary Read, Jean LaFitte? 3. Bible: Was Caesaria seat of Pilate's or Caesar's government? 4. Passenger pigeons are now extinct; true or false? 5. Which State leads in the production of grapefruit? 6. the Sault Ste. Marie canal connects which two of the Great Lakes? 7. With the political life of which country do you associate the name Juan Peron? 8. In which novel by Thacke ray is Becky Sharpe the heroine? 9. Is the term "gentleman fri end" or "lady friend" good us age? 10. "Hame's hame, be it never 10 hamely." J. Arbuthnot. What does "hame" mean? Answers: 1. 1873. 2. They were all pirates. 3. Pilate's. 4. -True 5. Flordia. 6. Huron and Sup erior 7. Argentina. 8. "Vanity Fair." 9. No. 10. Home. Court Rules Against Alaska Bus Company San Francisco U.R The Court of Appeals has upheld an injunction against the Anchor age Bus company of Anchorage, Alaska, forbidding it to operate between Anchorage and nearby Elmendorf Air Force Base. In a 2 to 1 decision the Court affirmed Monday a preliminary injunction obtained by the Mat anuska Valley Lines, Inc., which already has service between the air base and Anchorage. wr. MAIL TRIBUNE Rawles Moore "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; He can't be wrong whose life is in the right. "A wit's a feather and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God." The above well known quotations from Alexander Pope would be this department's selection of an epitaph for Judge Rawles Moore who passed away so suddenly and unexpectedly on Monday last. It is not perfect. Epitaphs never are. But it comes closer to describing Judge Moore as we knew him and have known him for many years than anything else with which we are familiar. We knew him well perhaps as well as any fal lible human can really know another. And his sense of right, his inherent and unfailing honesty even on the golf course! where in the "good old days" we so often "gamboled" were to us his outstanding characteristics. "llE SHALL miss him. The entire community will. Medford will be a far less interesting and en lightening place without him. - There is, of course, one consolation, one might term it a mutual one. That is: it is comforting to realize that he de parted without lingering or without suffering, quickly as he would have wished ."the sailor home from the sea, the hunter home from the hill." R.W.R. Whatever He Does Is Wrong A large part of the writer's business is to read the editorials of the Oregon press. As the aforesaid press is overwhelmingly Republican we are forced to suf fer a radically unbalanced editorial diet, politically speaking. - What has always, and continues to surprise us is the inability of the Republican press, AS A WHOLE, to even between elections give the opposition a decent break. We are not complaining particularly, njerely stating a fact. As far as our records go, there are only two or three' papers in the ENTIRE state, that might be ac cused of pro-Democratic leanings. Yet day after day the G.O.P. drum-fire goes, on, as if the campaign of 1956 had never ended. And the chief object of the partisan Republicans' wrath, is, of course, Oregon's senior Senator, Wayne Morse. - A PPARENTLY Senator Morse's change of party labels, on the basis of principle, is something the G.O.P. Old Guard can never and will never forgive or forget. So the one-sided war goes on. One might think that changing party affiliations in this free democracy which millions of good self respecting American citizens do. every few years were an unpardonable sin, only properly expiated by political death. Yet from his first election to the Upper House, to the present time, Oregon's senior senator repeat edly stated and clearly emphasized that he would not be bound solely by PARTY considerations; that he would always be a "free man" and when he be lieved the party to which he belonged was, from the standpoint of the national welfare wrong, he would put the welfare of his country above that of purely party fealty. THAT he has done. More than that he has faced overwhelming odds in the recent national election only two daily papers in the state supported him but he NOT only won, but has always run far ahead of his ticket. Is there any need of more evidence that public opinion in this state is behind him as it has been for 12 years? Is there reason to doubt that this will be true in the six years to come? Newspapers are supposed, by and large, to reflect public opinion. But obviously that is not true where Senator Morse is concerned. Again we are not complaining, merely stating a fact however, a fact we feel is worthy of conjment. TTHIS is particularly so because at this time, several of the anti-Morse press have recently shown signs of getting their second wind. This is particularly true of that vigorous cham pion of the Grand Old Party and everything it repre sents, the Salem Capital For example : in the paper damned Oregon's senior Senator for being nothing but an over-inflated "wind bag," an impotent figure in the Upper House, who had only to rise in his seat for a few words for an immediate exodus Following his election there was for Senator Morse a vocal hiatus. But instead of praising this departure from the practice so severely condemned the "C-J" proceeded to castigate this acteristic of Oregon's "Artful Dodger" fearful of be coming involved in the Dave Beck issue and thus losing his labor support. Finally when a few days later, Senator Morse de clared the time had come for the Teamsters union to get wise and to "clean house," this was the belated gesture of another self-seeking opportunist, climbing on the band wagon at the 11th hour as usual, just to get votes ! TT IS really rather funny. Such blind, persistent, ut terly humorless partisan prejudice and astigma tism often is. Senator Morse, who dared to depart from the Grand Old Party, because he had ceased to believe in Tuesday, April 9. 1957 Journal. . recent election the Salem and that would be a signal and an empty house. change of pace, as char Sen. Goldwater Hits Eisenhower Others Join Washington (U.R) Repub lican Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona scored President Eisen hower's budget Monday in one of the sharpest attacks on the President since his reelection. Goldwater, former chairman of the GOP Senate Campaign committee charged that the Pres ident is "subverting" the nation al economy and accused Eisen: hower of breaking his 1952 cam paign promises to economize. "No faithful public servant . . . would dare subscribe to such a breach of confidence," he said. Slams 'Modern GOP' Moreover, he slammed Eisen hower's "Modern Republican ism" as a "splinterized concept of Republican philosophy" de signed to have a "rather brief tenure." Goldwater was the latest of a number of Republicans to attack the President's 72 billion dollar budget. Also, there have been other signs among a number of Republicans of disenchant ment with the Eisenhower pro gram. Many Republicans teamed with southern Democrats in the House last week to cut appro priations for the Labor and Matter of Fact NON POLICY-MAKING London On the eve of a long Middle Eastern jounrey, this re porter has been trying rather desperately to find out just what Middle Eastern policy was agreed upon by Pres ident Eisen hower and Prime Minister Mac millan at Bermuda. Joseph Alsop Despite ail the happy crowing in the con trary sense, the answer to the foregoing question is, alas, only too clear. They did not agree upon any policy. The passage of time always makes the participants in great events, or even in events that ought to have been great but were not, more inclined to be honestly communicative. So al though it is a bit late in the day, it still seems worthwhile. So al though it is a bit late in hap pened at Bermuda. In the first place. President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan renewed their war time comradeship. Thus a basis was laid for intimate personal communication between them in future times of crisis. This was certainly a plus. IN THE second place, everyone kent. reDeatine. with the Pres ident leading the chorus, that the former closeness and frankness must be reestablished forthwith. The President no doubt meant what he said. Whether Secretary Dulles, who is seldom close or frank with his own most intimate subordinates, was equally sincere in his protestations, is an interest ing question which only the fu ture can answer. There is no truth, at any rate, in the report that special mechanisms of joint consultation and planning were set at Bermuda. In the third place, all present agreed about what they would like to see happen. Egypt's Nas ser curbed, the U.N. resolutions enforced, the Middle Eastern oil sources protected for all time these were' some of the objectives that were easily adopted in a delightful glow of concord. But the game of statesmen agreeing on what they would like to see happen is of course about on a par with the agreeable old parlor game of "what would you do if you had ten million dol lars?" And there was no detailed agreement at Bermuda on the only really . vital policy prob lem. This was, of course, the problem of actually making all these wonderful things happen that everyone wants to see happen.' i THIS failure, although as yet . only dimly sensed here, is the real reason for the very cool response to Bermuda in London. And this failure is the reason for saying that no real policy was agreed upon at Bermuda; for in if ' "jbe J it, is damned if he does and damned if he DOESN'T. He is damned for talking, he is damned for keep ing silent. He is damned for dodging the labor issue, then is scored for meeting it. The poor man can do nothing right. . THE point, we believe, such extremely partisan and bitterly hostile newspapers miss is that, that ho matter on which side of the fence it is exhibited, like the old and oft repeated cry of "wolf " it soon ceases to be effective effective with the people as a' whole at least. They soon get fed up with hearing day after day the same old story, chapter and verse all the leaders on one side of the aisle being devils, all on the other saints. It adds up to foolishness. The extreme partisans enjoy it, of course, but the majority while they may glance at the editorial head ings now and then, as a rule, we believe, know so well what they are going to read beneath, they just skip it. R.W.R. Budget; Attack Health, Education and Welfare departments. And only Monday the two top GOP . members of the House Rules committee Reps. Leo E. Allen (111.), and Clarence J. Brown (Ohio) join ed with southern Democrats to block action in effect on the ad ministration's Civil Rights Bill until next month. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson seized the opportunity of Goldwater's at tack on Eisenhower to compare the new budget of "the so-called Great Crusader" with the peace time high of nine billion dollars under President Roosevelt and 39 billion dollars under Presi dent Truman. Goldwater said both he and the President campaigned in 1952 against big federal spend ing and promised to cut the bud get. For four years, he said, the administration "made valiant ef forts toward reducing the bud get." Now, Goldwater said, "This strange and mysterious force seems to have descended upon the Republicans, for something has happened to change the mind of the administration since 1952." By Joseph Alsop policy making the means are al ways the great difficulty where as the ends are generally self evident. For the immediate future, dev elopments in the Middle East do not seem too hard to predict from this perspective of London. Having lightheartedly tossed away every means of pressure that could possioiy be applied to Col. Nasser, the great powers of the West are eventually go ing to have to let Nasser operate the Suez Canal on approximate ly his own terms, at least as long as he keeps the contsoversial ditch open to all but Israeli traf fic. There will be a lot of empty bluster first. But even the most hot-headed British and French see that an attempted boycott would be a way of cutting off the nose to spite the face. So Nasser. will get just about his way on' the canal. In Gaza, too, he is sure to get just about his way. He was, in deed, sure to do so from the moment when it was so strangely decided in Washington that a few thousand "strictly, even pas sionately non shooting U. N. troops could control 250,000 suicidaUy inflamed Palestinian refugees wholly guided by Nas ser's agents. Nasser may like to keep the U.N. troops in Gaza on his own terms, however, as a shield against Israel. . THEREFORE if Nasser does not try to interfere with the pas sage of Israeli shipping through the Gulf of Aqaba, which seems unlikely, the immediate prospect is disagreeable but unexciting. The sad phoniness of many as sumptions made and things said in recent months will be dis played to the world. There wll be bad feeling and criticism, es pecially Anglo-French criticism of American policy. But that wiU be about all. The real danger to the Western alliance lies further ahead in the future, and outside the im mediate neighborhood of the Suez Canal. The American Middle Eastern policy that is De ginning to be vaguelly shadowed forth, is essentially a policy of replacing British weight and in fluence with American weight and influence. This would not be easy in the best of circumstances. An Amer ican effort to stabilize the Middle East is bound to be encountered by powerful and astute opposi tion from Moscow. Moreover, for many different, extremely hu man reasons, replacing British influence with American , in fluence is a remarkably delicate operation. To go smoothly and it could hardly succeed unless it goes smoothly this operation re quired a policy agreement, made in advance, in great detail, and at the highest level. Unfortunate ly, even after all the talk at Bermuda, no such agreement ex ists. (c) 1947 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communists Get New In India; Nehru Challenge Seen n rHlBl.PS ut M.rmn Hll.J T5- . . I wmwu rim buimpgnoeal Communism has established a new foothold in eastern Asia. A Red government has been established in the state of Ker ala, in India, as the result of the recent na t i o n a 1 elec tions. Thus Prime Minister Jaw aharlal Nehru, friend of Sovi et Russia and Communist Charles M. McCann China, will have the opportunity of prac ticing the Red policy of "co-existence" on his own territory. The Communists won 60 of the 1C5 seats in the Kerala State Parliament in the elections. They are assured the support of five independents and thus have a majority. Nehru's Congress Par ty was able to win only 43 seats. It must have been a painful blow to Nehru. He gets along fine with the Russian, Chinese and other foreign Communists. But he never has had any fond ness for his own Communists. To make things worse, the new chief minister of the Kerala gov ernment a post corresponding to prime minister is held by Elankulam Namboodiripad a one time leader of the Congress Par ty. First Red Foothold The victory of the Kerala Reds gives Communism its first official foothold in a new part of Asia in any part of Asia, in fact, outside of the Soviet Union, China, Northern Viet Nam and North Korea. It is ironic that it had to hap pen to Nehru. While the menace of Communism is serious in some Asiatic countries, the In dian Communists never have amounted to much. Nehru, a benevolent dictator, Editorial Comment CANADIANS JUSTIFIABLY BITTER The strange suicide of a Cana dian ambassador in Cairo is la mentable and the circumstances are inexcusable. The ambassador, Herbert Nor man, killed himself because he had been publicly accused of being a Communist by a hired investigator of ra-U. S. senate committee. . ' .- r -. Whether Norman was or was not a Communist is beside the point. The background goes back to somewhere around 1948. The FBI-reported that in 1939 Nor man was a member of a U. S. student group of leftist leanings or worse. Whether this was then passed on to Canadian authori ties is not known. But in 1951, the evidence was brought out in a senate hearing in Washington. The Canadian government checked .it out, cleared Norman and objected about the handling. Then last month another sen ate committee counsel said pub licly that the FBI findings still appeared sound. The Canadian government again protested, this time in great anger. Now that the suicide has oc curred everyone from Prime Minister Lester Pearson on down has been furious. It is hard to understand how a senate committee could allow such a breach of decency. This is malicious meddling in another country's business. In the be ginning, the facts should have been turned over quietly to the Canadian government.. From that point on it was Canadian business. One only has to re verse the situation to realize the feeling there must be in the country to the north. Albany Democrat-Herald. OUTLAW PINBALLS The Oregon Legislature should ban the use of pinball machines throughout the state, thus rid ding us of another salary syph oning gambling device. The contention by coin-machine men that pinballs are not gambling devices that they are in fact put out in likely loca tions for amusement and tests of "skill" is so patently untrue that we sometimes wonder why they bother with the explana tions. The pinball machine is a gambling device. It is a device manipulated by the owner to pay back, in free games which are exchanged for a nickel each, as much as the machine owner wants to pay back. It will suck, in the players' money as fast as the operator's greed dictates. - We think a mighty lot of help could come from our state legis lators, now sitting in Salem. They could rewrite the existing gambling statutes to include pin ball machines of the type now in operation. They could ban pinballs entirely from the state of Oregon as the City Com mission and the people of Port land have banned the gambling devices in Multnomah County's metropolis We strongly urge Coos County legislators to'initiate such legis lation. Coos Bay Times. sm--gi mm m i 5 i 'V - " is firmly in charge of India as a whole. His Congress Party won 365 of the 488 seats in the ruling lower house of the 'Indian Parl iament in the elections. The Com munists won only 27. But Kerala's 7,500,000 voters refused to go along with Nehru. Their, vote for the Communists was largely a protest against the extreme poverty of that part of India. Kerala is one of the 16 new states formed by Nehru out of the 29 states that once made up India. It is 15,035 square miles in area and has a population of 13,550,631. It lies at the extreme southern tip of the Indian penin sula. Namboodiripad Newsman Chief Minister Namboodiripad is 48. A member of a high-caste patrician family, as is Nehru, he is a weU-known newspaper man. He is wealthy, and has been a generous contributor to Commu nist funds. In the Days News . By FRANK Foreien affairs stuff: I The Middle East situation which we'd like to see looking better and better keeps look ing grimmer and grimmer. Let's keep our hats on. What's going on over there is a big stakes poker game. It is quite probable that a lot of bluffs are being run. The best news is that there is no shooting yet. ON THE domestic front, the ap propriations committee of the U. S. house of representatives votes a cut of nearly 218 million dollars in the requested budget for the department of commerce The bill, as trimmed, now goes to the house floor for action. (XK THE face of it, it SOUNDS like the house of representa tives (where all money-spending bills must originate) MEANS BUSINESS, and is going to cut spending sharply so that federal taxes can be reduced. Wait a minute. Before jumping to any conclu sions, read this rather revealing little dispatch: Economy-minded congressmen say they have trimed nearly a BILLION dollars from President Eisenhower's r e c o r d-breaking peacetime budget. They hope eventually to cut two or, three times that much ,,.. . ,.,s However The budget-cutting fever cool ed slightly Thursday night, when a ROLL CALL vote was taken and nearly 53 million dollars slipped back into appropriations for the labor and welfare depart ments. 11HAT does that mean? " Briefly, it means this:. The trimming was done on a VOICE vote. On a voice vote, nobody knows who voted for what. A roll call vote is a RE CORD vote and on a record vote anybody who is willing to take the time to check up on the record can find out who voted for what. VUHAT does THAT mean? It means that as of now in the congress of the United States which has the final say on how much is to be spent, which gov erns the amount of tax money that will have to be taken out of the pockets of the people TALKING ECONOMY is regard ed as good politics, but actually VOTING for economy is regard ed as bad politics. In other words - The politicians still believe that what the people want is MORE -SPENDING rather than less spending. They will continue to believe that until the people start picking out the spenders and voting against them. , . WHEN that time comes IF it comes We will get more economy in government. But not, I'm afraid, until then. Counsel With . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone 2-4940 - MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. , Foothold Namboodiripad was converted to Communism about 10 years ago. He previously had ' been president of Nehru's Congress Party in Kerala. As soon as- he took office last Friday,' Namboodiripad com muted aU death sentences in Kerala and said he would free aU political .prisoners. He an- , nounced that he proposed a dras tic land reform program. This will include, if he can get away with it, the nationalization of foreign-owned plantations. It can not be said that the es tablishment of Communist rule in Kerala constitutes any serious threat at the moment. But Com munism is always a threat wher ever it gets even a little power. In India, the danger in the long range view is that Commu nism will spread to other areas of the peninsula. That whole part of the country is impoverished and rich ground for Red pene tration. . : - JENKINS TAKING everything into con- ; sideration, it seems improb able that federal taxes can be REDUCED SHARPLY this year, oi even next year. But we certainly ought to be able to STOP TAXES FROM RISING, so that we can catch o-r breath, get our second wind and start reducing the national debt. SPEAKING of the national debt INTEREST on it amounts now to about seven BILLION dollars. On the gereral assumption that each billion dollars spent by the federal government costs you as an individual about. $6, that means that interest on the na tional debt costs you individual ly about $42 a year. As late as the decade ending in 1936, our TOTAL per capita fed eral tax was only $20.95. Now, only 20 years later, our per capita federal tax is more than $400-or .20 times what it was 20 years ago.. . It's getting about time to call a halt. New Mexican Voters To Elect Congressman Santa Fe, N.M. U.R) New Mexico voters went to the polls today to" choose between Demo crat Joseph Montoya and Repub lican Tom Bolack for the con gressional seat held by the late Rep. Antonio Fernandez, a Dem ocrat. Only' 70,000 persons were ex pected to vote despite an outlook for generally fair weather. More than 260,000 voted last Nov. 7 when Fernandez was elected at large to an eighth term. He died the next day of a stroke. CASH 1 FOR TAXES If YOU HAVE taxes, insurance or other obligations to meet come in and see us. We offer a complete loan service. One of our plans will solve your problem. OREGON FINANCE i COMPANY Locally Owned & Operated Gene Thomas, Manager 46 South Central THINK IT. OVER Human lives are cheap today, And yet we must protect them, -For cars we buy Are now so high, We cant' afford to wreck - them. Bill Fish
