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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UKE "Xveryon In Soutoern Oregon Reads Tfie Mail lnpune Published Daily Ex cent Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO J7-29 North fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor PTRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business ManaKer ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorti Editor OIJVE STAR CHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second claw matter at Mediord Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1337 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Id Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six monthi 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos. -23 Sundav Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. 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The com batants should get worked up over something closer to home. 20 YEARS AGO April 10. 1937 (Saturday) Plans for the coordination of forest fire fighting personnel, equipment and supplies are made at conference at Prescott CCC camp. "Be kind to animal" week starts Monday, according to the Southern Oregon Humane so ciety. 30 YEARS AGO April 10, 1927 (Sunday) Between 400 to 500 men are now employed by the California Oregon Power company to con struct Prospect diversion dam. Roy C. Lyle, federal prohibi tion agent for the Oregon dis trict, in Medford on tour of in spection. - 40 YEARS AGO April 10. 1917 (Tuesday) Medford selected as mobiliza tion headquarters for the south ern sector of the Oregon Nation al Guard. Mayor Gates calls meeting to take steps toward organizing a home guard. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is snperlor; sev en er eight ts excellent: five or six ts good. 1. A roentgen is the standard unit of r n? 2. What is the basic commod ity used in the manufacture of rum? 3. Bible: "And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was, Micah." Is this from the Book of I Kings or Judges? 4. Walter P. Reuther is a labor leader of what CIO union? 5. Is a flounder a frog, fish, or tadpole? 6. On what Mediterranean is land was Napoleon Bonaparte first exiled? 7. From which island in the West Indies does the U. S. im port the largest quantities of sugar? , 8. How many dozens are in a great gross? 9. In a business letter should the phrase "would say" be avoided? 10. '"No man is a hero to his valet." Did a man or woman write this? Answers: 1. Radiation; 2. Mo lasses; 3. Judges; 4. United Au tomobile Workers; 5. Fish; 6. Elba; 7. Cuba; 8. 144; 9. Yes; 10. Woman. Madame Cornuel (d. . 1604). Hunger-Crazed Dogs Attack Child in Japan Tokyo UR) Hunger-crazed dogs attacked and killed seven-year-old primary student Yaeko Yamatani Tuesday while she was playing in the back yard of her home in" Wakkanai on Ja pan's northern island of Hokkai do. Two other children were bitten Monday. Police said about 60 stray dogs were chased out of the city in a recent drive to rid Wakka nai of stray animals. They are roaming the nearby hills. MAIL TRIBUNE Letter From MacLaren One of the most poignant documents we have seen in a long time was printed in the Roseburg News Re view the other day. It was a letter written to the paper by a 14-year-old boy a few months after he had been sent to MacLaren School for Boys at Woodbum, the state's "training school" or "reformatory" although these words are no longer in vogue. ' Editor Charles Stanton vouches for the authentic ity of the letter, and describes the boy as being above average in intelligence who made excellent grades in school when he would go. TT NEEDS no further comment, except to voice the wish without any high expectations that every youngster would read it, and think. The letter follows, in full : This is written for the benefit of the friends I had and ran around with, those who think it is smart to jeopardize ; their freedom by breaking the law just to be one of the boys. It is those misinformed young men whom I shall try to reach through the words I am writing out of my own experiences. I am what is known as a juvenile delinquent. I started at an early age by stealing little things. It became a thrilling experience just to steal what amounted to a trifle, but that eventually put me behind the doors of a reformatory where I am now. Each time I would take something with it. Then the inevitable happened I was caught and sent to MacLar en. The enormity of the situation finally hit me right in the face. Here I am a smart boy, 14 years old, and for the rest of my life I shall have to bear the stigma of being an ex delinquent. When I was on the outside I had little respect for other people or their possessions because I thought and thorough ly believed that I could outsmart and beat the law enforce ment agencies of my community. However, I finally found out that it does not pay to do wrong and try to get away with it. If you get away with the things I did you may even tually wind up with a gun in your hand and then it is too late to be helped as I am being helped now. I have been at MacLaren two months now, but it seems like an eternity; especially when I consider the fact that a lot of .young fellows like myself are out in the free world having a wonderful time and making something out of their lives. It is hard for a young boy to realize how foolish he is being, but once he faces the truth, he begins to realize that it is not a joke. When I might be out there with my friends having a good time, I know that all I have accomplished is to make a fool of myself. The lesson I have learned in the School for Boys at MacLaren is a clear one and shall serve to keep me from being so foolish again. If you other boys, who have not experienced the trading of freedom at home for confinement in a reformatory, haven't started down the road which can only lead to the wrong goal; then it is time to stop and consider. The out come of everything you do when you are young will count in your future. If you think it is easy to beat the law, re member if there isn't room in MacLaren, they will make room for you. It is as easy to obey the law as to break it. E.A. Cooperation There is a governmental organization which has an imposing title, and about which too little is gener ally known. It is called the Western Interstate Com mission for Higher Education. It may be better-known in Medford than in some other places, for its present chairman is Frank J. Van Dyke of Medford, who heads the organization, after a distinguished career including service in the legisla ture (one term as speaker of the house), and on the state board of higher education. . IN THE briefest possible terms, the commission is an organization set up 'by the 10 western states and Alaska to provide for cooperation among them in fa cilitating higher education in specialized fields. For instance, Oregon has no school of veterinary medicine. Rather than set up such a school, at a veiy considerable cost, the commission is called in and ar ranges for Oregon students to study veterinary medi cine at, perhaps, Washington State college, at a cost comparable to what it would be if an Oregon school were in operation." Nursing training and dental training are available in Oregon ; they are not in some of the other western states. Their nursing and dental students attend the Oregon schools on much the same tuition and admis sion basis as if they did not have, to leave their home state for their training. . THE commission has gone about its business quietly and with little fanfare. But it has made a signifi cant contribution to cooperation and efficiency in making special educational facilities available to all qualified students in the west, at considerable sayings to the individual states involved. As a result, it has taken one big step forward. There are, as we see it, others which can be taken. There is, for instance, a role similar to that of the Richmond Area University Center, operated cooper atively by 12 colleges, universities and seminaries in Virginia. They have set up a fund from which come research grants; joint professorships for distinguished men who a single institution could not afford ; visiting lec tureships; publication facilities for articles by faculty members. It has arranged intercampus conferences in special fields, compiled a catalogue of all periodicals in the members' libraries, and set up a joint program of adult education which has enrolled some 7,000 persons. THE plan is flexible. Not all members have to par ticipate in all programs of the Center. But they have found it to be of incalculable benefit to each. George Modlin, president of the University of Richmond, reported "For- every dollar we put in, we have received at least two or three dollars worth of benefit." Before the "flood" of university students of the 1960s, the so-called war-babies, hits, the campuses, consideration for development of a similar role for the interstate commission might wrell benefit higher education in the west. E. A. Wednesday, April 10, 1957 Allied Restrictions on With Red China Due for Easing Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent . It is practically certain that Allied restrictions against trade with Communist China will be relaxed mater ially before too long. Great Brit ain, West Ger many, France, Japan and oth er countries are determin ed to ease up the embargo Charles M. McCsuun against trade which has been imposed since the Chinese Reds entered the Korean Wtr in 1950. The United States is against any relaxation. The Eisenhower administration expresses deter mination to maintain the United States blanket embargo on Red China trade. But other Allied countries are unwilling to maintain the pres ent restrictions on their trade. They need the money and they want to get into what is poten tially one of the richest of world markets. What ..will happen in United States policy if the trade of other Allied countries with Red China becomes important re mains to be seen. 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 right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Another Octopus Sighted To the Editor: We note that a Mr. Holmes covered our present money matters in a very good way. However it would be well for him to go back a little fur ther in history and advise that this Federal system was brought over from Germany by Felix Warburg, that he brought two in the Wilson Congress Glass and one other and O.K.'d by Mandle House, the real power behind Woodrow Wilson, and fastened this Octopus to our Nation. Since it has grown, and been able with the help of sub sequent spineless Congresses, to ditch, drain and damn both our country and our sacred Consti tution. .Frank K. Haskell P.O. Box 1012 Salem, Oregon The Horseless Carriage Age . To the Editor: We received a newspaper clipping taken from The Beloit, (Kansas) Daily Call, announcing the antique auto auction of the Bob Theirolf's an cient car collection for April 12 and 13. Three auctioneers will call the sale of 82 ancient ve hicles on Highway U.S. 24. The old models range from a 1903 Cadillac, motor No. 186, first car ever sold in Beloit. Why, we have a faint recol lection of one. It was a home made runabout designed by a Mr. George B.:ough, blacksmith, around the late nineties and was 12 years in piece-by-piece as sembly. ,Mr. Brough used the chain-driven model to carry the R.F.D. mail on route No. 2 at Randall, Kans., before we came west around 1911. You could hear the exhaust of the twin engine motor a mile away. Mr. Theirolf started his col lection in 1933, and has attract ed tourists from California to the Atlantic coast for a ride in one of his horseless carriages. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford, Ore. Nothing New Under the Sun To the Editor: Along with locai, national and world wor ries, here comes the first black ening smudge of the season. But the sun is breaking through and driving it away, with birds lift ing gladsome voices to the burgeoning springtime. It seems to be a definite quirk of human nature to climb hills that just ain't there. The . following writ ing tends to prove as follows: "It isa gloomy moment in his: tory. Not in the lifetime of any man who reads his paper has there been so much grave and deep apprehension; never has the future seemed so dark and incalculable. "In France the political cal dron seeths and bubbles with uncertainty. England and the British empire are being sorely tried and exhausted in a social, and economic struggle, with tur moil at home and uprising oCl her teeming millions in her far- off Indian empire. "The United States is beset with racial, industrial and comt mercial chaos drifting, we know not where. j "Russia hangs like a storro cloud on the horizon of Europie dark and silent. "It is a solemn moment, and no man can feel indifferenot, which happily no man pretenc's to feel in the issue of events. Of our own troubles, no ma can see the end." Sounds pretty awful, what? Well, it so happens it was pub lished 110 years ago, 1847, In Harper's magazine. Borrowed from Beaumont (Texas) Journal. F. J. Clifford, i 1211 West Main st., 'Medford, Ore. I T 1 But theire is likely to be in creasing pressure on the gov ernment from the big manufac turers to 'Base American restric tions. Britain, Giermany Eager Britain and Germany, for in stance, w tnt to build up a big export tntde in motor cars and tractors with Communist China. Some American manufactur ers like Iord and Chrysler are on record as favoring increased trade. Htnry Ford II, speaking at the antnual convention of the National Automobile Dealers as sociation in San Francisco on Jan. 28, said that trade with Communist China might be in the best interests of the United States. Ifie called for "realistic decisionsf on trade and aid pol icies regarding Red-ruled coun tries. Britain, West Germany, Japan and Frapce. among other coun tries, already have relaxed their trade restrictions to a consider able extent Britain notified the United fjtates in May, 1956, that it intended to increase its trade with the Chinese" Reds. This easing included the shipment of some items which had been classified as strategic. British Frime Minister Harold Macmillan discussed the trade situatiop with President Eisen Unhappy Democrats Talking of Tax Cut To Get Jump on GOP By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) Secre tary (f the Treasury George M. Humfihrey is reported to have heard! some Dutch uncle -talk from one of the administration's erstwhile Democratic friends in Congress. He was told in effect the ad ministration has painted itself into a political corner by its handling of the federal budget this :pear. He was also told there is a 'rery good possibility the re sult 'pould be passage of a Democratic-sponsored bill this year to cut personal income taxes, ef fective next Jan. 1, despite ad ministration opposition. The reasoning behind this line of thought runs this way: Pijesident Eisenhower startled Congress and the country by his recofd peacetime budget of al most 72 billion dollars for the coming fiscal year that . starts Juliir 1. Public Demands Cuts TJhen the President himself in vited Congress to make cuts be fore stepping out in recent weeks as a more vigorous champion of his ' budget. Meanwhile, Hum phitey and other administration spc&esmen also encouraged Con grciss to shave the budget re quests. Public demands began to pour Today and By Walter . London A few days in Lon don have brought home to me a. gain what it. is so easy to for get, how much foreign policy is actually the reflection of do mestic and internal affairs and feeling. The objective fact is, ripo doubt, that the British na tion is in the early stages of adjusting itself to that new po sition in the world which was dramatized as necessary by the Suez disas ter. But while there appears to be few in Britain who would deny that the read justment is ne cessary there is, of course, ; Walter Lippmann no enthusiasm for it. The Brit ish are used to living in a large house, and the prospect of ssqueezing themselves into a con siderably smaller one is depress inff Tt has to he done and it wil be done, but it is not exhilar ating. The changeover is plainly un der way and the effects are al ready visible In the budget, in military planning, and in for eign policy. But I have an im pression, though of course it is only an impression, that neither of the two parties has yet begun to talk affirmatively about the work of the future, neither has as yet passed the point of think ing about the future as a time when much that was glorious and fascinating will have been given up. IT IS evident, it seems to me, .that the recent past, that the story of what has happened since last summer, lies heavily and painfully, an indigestable lump, upon the spirits of the British people. They do not un derstand what happened. There is no accepted history of how Britain came to fall into such a disaster in the Midle East. Yet to the whole tangled history there are attached deep and acute emotions of patriotism, re it Trade hower at their conference In Bermuda last month. No agree ment was reached. Trade Group To Meet Now it has been decided that the 15 countries which belong to the China Trade Co-Ordinating Committee shall discuss relaxa tion at a meeting to be held in Paris soon Members of this committee, called 'Chincom," in clude the United States, Canada, Japan and 12 Eufopean members of the North Atlantic Treaty or ganization. Britain took the initiative in arranging this meeting. Britain believes it can export 112 mil lion dollars worth of goods to Red China a year.- It especially wants to develop export of auto mobiles. The automobiles supposedly would be strictly for civilian use. There the question arises of how anybody cculd keep Chinese Communist army men from rid ing in such vehicles if they liked. One argument which those who favor increased trade use including some American ex porters is that tight restrictions only serve to make Communist China almost completely depen dent on Russia for goods it needs. The official American stand is that any relaxation will aid the Communists. into the House and Senate mail boxes for a reduced budget and lower taxes. The House began hacking away at appropriations bills. Although the Senate has yet to be heard from, rumbles now are coming from House Democrats about the possibility of passing a tax reduction b!ll before Con gress quits this summer. This probably would come in the form of a measure to raise the individual income tax exemp tion for each taxpayer and de pendent from the present $600 to $700, beginning next Jan. 1. Tax Reduction Pending? A tax cut of that amount would cost the treasury about $2,500,000,000 in a full year, although the cost would be less than half that figure in the fiscal year beginning July 1. ' There have been hints from Democratic leaders that they would like to see the appropria tions bills trimmed by a total of more than three billion dollars with half of the saving going to debt reduction and the rest to tax relief. In these circumstances, it is presumed a tax reduction bill would be hard to stop. The Democrats visualize a Re publican-sponsored drive for tax reduction next year and are in no mood to let the GOP get the jump on this issue. . Tomorrow Lippmann morse, injured pride and frus tration. One feels that the British na tion will not face the future con fidently and with a whole heart until it has come to terms with the history of the Suez affair. The thing was too big, it aroused too much passion, to be passed off easily. rpHIS work of clarification and understanding is not being helped much today by the polit ical parties. The Macmillan gov ernment stands by the Suez pol icy while preferring not to ex plain it, and hoping that the en tire affair will be treated as something which it is best to forget. The Labor Party is not of one mind about the Suez af fair, and it does not speak clear ly about its causes, with con sequences, or the- remedies. It may be expecting too much that the whole truth could be told about the Suez affair, and that by public debate the emo tion .tension attached to it could be relieved. The alternative is to let time work the cure, and to let the new problems that arise override the old preoccu pations. THERE is already some evi dence that this process has been begun. Thus it is agreed among those I have talked with that, provided the United States protects the flow of oil from the Middle East, there will be little popular regret about the change in the political positions of Britain in the Middle East. It may also be significant that Lord Salisbury's resignation does not seem to have divided the Conservative Party or to have shaken the government. Inasmuch as Lord Salisbury is the great representative of the old British position in the world, the way his resignation has been received would seem to prove that the country has just about accepted the change in Britain's position. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK Last week the House Interior committee approved, with the amendments, the Senate bill to slow up the end of government supervision over the Klamath Indians. The action came after the committee had voted to in clude in its report on the bill a "strong censure" of the manage ment specialists who are now studying the. termination pro cedures. The "censure" request , was made by Representative Berry of South Dakota, who accused the specialists of having "drag ged their feet" on the termina tion program. He was permitted by the committee to file a minor ity report on the bill which, he charged, appears to be spon sored "more by non-Indians than by the Indians. Berry was joined in his "feet-dragging" charge by Rep resentative Haley of Florida, who said he noted that the spe cialists "will continue to draw their $1,000 per month each throughout this extension of time." SO MUCH for the opinions of these Eastern Congressmen who intimate that .the Kla math- management specialists have betrayed their trust and are seeking to rob the Klamath Indians for the benefit of the whites. Let's take a look now at the FACTS. PUBLIC Law 578 (the Klamath termination bill) was enacted bv Coneress in the iam-packed days just preceding final ad journment in an election year. It included this section: In order to pay off the mem bers of the tribe who wanted their share in cash, it provided for sale to the highest bidder of enough of the tribal property to produce the amount or money needed. It soon became evident that the money needed for this purpose would run far into the millions because of the proba bility that a large number of the members of the tribe would want their share in cash. WHAT did this mean? It meant this: One of the finest stands of Ponderosa pine timber remain ing in the West would have to he thrown on the market at fire sale prices. The result of that would be: 1. The timber would SELL McCarthys Trade White House Snubs With Eisenhowers Washington (U.P.) Sen. arid Mrs. Joseph R. McCarthy have traded snubs with the White House in their running social feud with President and Mrs. Eisenhower. In return for the social snub the Eisenhowers dealt the Mc Carthys last month when they dropped their names from the guest list for a White House con gressional reception, Mrs. Mc Carthy failed to appear or even answer an invitation in advance to the First Lady's annual lunch for Senate wives Tuesday. There was some conflict over just how the invitation was ex tended in the first place. Relayed Invitation Mrs. McCarthy said she only got a relayed oral invitation a few days ago. The White House said she got a formal engraved invitation March 15 "like all the other wives." But that apparently is a small detail. "Even if I had received an in vitation I wouldn't have gone because if they didn't invite my husband - because of his fight against Communism, I would hardly accept," Mrs. McCarthy, told reporters. ? . Mrs. McCarthy said the invi tation came only by phone to her husband's office Friday. She said the office had been unable to reach her about it until about '1 p.m. Tuesday just when the lunch began in the festively-decorated state dining room. About one-third of the zinc needed for U. S. arms during WorlH War II came from the mines located in the Missouri- Kansas-Oklahoma fields. A Major Event One of the three rnajor events in most everyone's life is mar riage. To make the ceremony more lovely, more beautiful, outstandingly complete and C. M. Lirwiller free from cares and work, arrange now to have that wedding amidst growing palms, hear a trickling waterfall ... in the home-like atmos phere found only at Litwiller's. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close JENKINS CHEAP on a glutted market, thus robbing the Indian owners. 2. It would be sold in rela tively small tracts that would be cut out on a boom and bust basis that would wreck the long term timber economy of the Klamath Basin. WE COME now to the manage ment specialists, whose job was to carry out the provisions of Public Law 578. After their apointment, they devoted months of painstaking study to the law. Being sound business men and good citizens, they came eventually vto the con clusion that if the law was put into effect as enacted it would rob the Indian owners and ser iously upset the economy of the adjacent area. THEY refused to sign the con-' tract binding them to admin ister Public Law 587' unless they were permitted to submit amendments to make the law fairer to the Indian owners. The specialists contract was changed to make this possible, and the purpose of the stop-gap bill now before the Congress is to extend the time for the end ing of government supervision over the Klamath Indians so that Public Law 587 may be amended to make it fairer to the Indians and less destructive to the economy of the area in which the Klamath reservation is located. ' THAT is the situation as or Ttnw If any censure is due, I think anv fair-minded rjerson will agree that it should be directed toward these Congressmen from Smith Dakota and Florida who obviously have little knowledge of what they are talking about. Editorial Comment CAUSE CELEBRE The Medford Mail Tribune chides the "one-party .press" of Oregon for failing to give plau dits to Congressman . Charles Porter for his work toward clearing up the death of Gerald Murphy which included Porter's direct attribution of the crime to the Trujillo regime in the Dom inican Republic. This paper has commented on Porter's diligence in pursuing this case. He has basis for greater activity than other congressmen because Mur phy's parents live in Eugene, in Porter's Fourth District. Porter has made numerous speeches in Congress or. this case, attacking Dictator Rafael Trujillo direct ly. He has prodded the state de partment. His agitation helped stir Life magazine to doing a feature article which traced Mur phy as pilot of the plane which removed a presumed victim of Trujillo's fury from New York to the Dominican Republic. To cover this lip, Murphy himself was pushed off a high cliff. Porter does deserve commen dation for his drive to clear up a grave international mystery. That it is a case which he de lights biting into and making it a cause celebre is not to his dis credit. In fact it looks as though Porter is succeeding building it into 'a cause celebre. Oregon Statesman. 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